POLS 1113 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Louis Brownlow, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Walter Mondale
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The presidency is not a single officeholder, but rather the elected president plus dozens of advisers. The cabinet, though not mentioned in the constitution, has traditionally acted as the president"s main advisory group. The cabinet"s current 14 departments were created in three groups: departments the constitutional government inherited from the government under the. Under the articles of confederation, this was known as the department of foreign affairs. The attorney general was always a cabinet officer, but was not head of a department until 1870. Agriculture (1889): serves the needs of farmers. Commerce (1913): serves the needs of business. Labor (1913): serves the needs of workers. The labor department was originally a bureau within the department of the. Interior (1849): serves the needs of ranchers and miners. These four departments interior, agriculture, commerce, and labor are sometimes called client-centered departments because they serve specific constituencies: departments created since the 1960s in response to technological developments.
