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Quotation from Inaugural Address (John Quincy Adams) by John Quincy Adams
“Subordinate departments have distributed the executive functions in their various relations to foreign affairs, to the revenue and expenditures, and to the military force of the Union by land and sea”
Inaugural Address (John Quincy Adams), Inaugural address (Project Gutenberg #4938)
Part of Adams's review of how the executive departments have worked under the Constitution.
Citation: "Subordinate departments have distributed the executive functions in their various relations to foreign affairs, to the revenue and expenditures, and to the military force of the Union by land and sea" — John Quincy Adams, Inaugural Address (John Quincy Adams), Inaugural address (Project Gutenberg #4938). (id john-quincy-adams-inaugural-address-q5)
