The blank located in the blank branch is responsible for synthesizing the messages coming out of the foreign policy establishment to the president make his or her own foreign policy

The blanks (indicated by the word "blank" in the text) are filled as follows:

"The National Security Council in the Executive branch is responsible..."

The president relies on the advice of the National Security Council to form U.S. foreign policy. This organism is composed by the vice-president, secretary of state, secretary of defense, head of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. It was introduced by former president of the U.S.A., Harry S. Truman, after disbanding the National Intelligence Authority (NIA), which served the same purpose.

i belive the continental association was created to boycott all contact with british goods.

i also belive it was in december 1, 1774