Published: April 24, 2020, 5:37 p.m.
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The US Constitution never established a presidential cabinet\\u2014the delegates to the Constitutional Convention explicitly rejected the idea. So how did George Washington create one of the most powerful bodies in the federal government?
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On November 26, 1791, George Washington convened his department secretaries\\u2014Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, Henry Knox, and Edmund Randolph\\u2014for the first cabinet meeting. Why did he wait two and a half years into his presidency to call his cabinet? Because the US Constitution did not create or provide for a presidential cabinet. Washington was on his own.
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