Congressional Government: A Study in American Politics - Softcover

Wilson, Professor Woodrow

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0801825563 ISBN 13: 9780801825569

Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1981

Synopsis

The object of these essays is not to exhaust criticism of the government of the United States, but only to point out the most characteristic practical features of the federal systeny Taking Congress as the central and predominant power of the system, their object is to illustrate everything Congressional. Everybody has seen, and critics without number have said, that our form of national government is singular, possessing a character altogether its own; but there is abundant evidence that very few have seen just wherein it differs most essentially from the other governments of the world. There have been and are other federal systems quite similar, and scarcely any legislative or administrative principle of our Constitution was young even when that Constitution was framed. It is our legislative and administrative machinery which makes our government essentially different from all other great governmental systems.
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Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924) was, famously, the 28th President of the United States, a wartime Commander-in-Chief, and winner of the 1919 Nobel Peace Prize. Before, he was president of Princeton University and the governor of New Jersey. Less famously, earlier still, he was a practicing lawyer, an accomplished professor of political science and jurisprudence, and a prolific scholar and popular author. His books on civics, U.S. history, and presidential biography are classroom and historical classics.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0801825563
• ISBN 13: 9780801825569
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256