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Excerpt from Congressional Government: A Study in American Politics
I have been led by the publication of a French translation of this little volume to read it through very carefully, for the first time since its first appearance. The re-reading has con vinced me that it ought not to go to another impression without a word or two by way of preface with regard to the changes which our singular system of Congressional government has undergone since these pages were written.
I must ask those who read them now to re member that they were written during the years 1883 and 1884, and that, inasmuch as they describe a living system, like all other living things subject to constant subtle modifi cations, alike Of form and of function, their description of the government of the United States is not as accurate now as I believe it to have been at the time I wrote it.
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