Congressional Government: A Study in American Politics

by Woodrow Wilson

Book Overview

The object of this book is to point out the most characteristic practical features of the federal system. Taking Congress as the central and predominant power of the system, its 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8027334322
• ISBN13: 9788027334322
• Release Date: October 2019
• Publisher: Madison & Adams Press
• Length: 116 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Wilson's Insights Still Stand 100 Years Later

In the gutsiest political manifesto of American history, Woodrow Wilson dared to say that the Founding Fathers had it wrong. What's amazing is that his analysis holds up after 100 years. Wilson believed that "separation of powers" did not exist, and that the building impenetrable walls between the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches produced abdication of responsbility. Wilson held up as a model the Westminster cabinet form of government as a model of clarity, openness, and responsibility. You can read Wilson's 1884 pages as if he wrote them today. The style is pure Victorian -- run-on sentences galore -- but the analysis is rapier-sharp. My opinion -- get this book, and have your mind changed. You will never see American government the same way again.PATRICK McGRATH The Campaign for Responsible Government Stony Point, NY