The extent and variety of executive business also accumulating with the progress of our country and its growing population call for an additional department, to be charged with duties now over-burdening other departments and with such as have not been annexed to any department.
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Madison argues for the creation of an additional department to manage the increasing executive responsibilities due to national growth.
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