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Excerpt from Democracy Today: An American Interpretation
Under our form of government, the President occupies a place that has no exact parallel in the government of any other important country. In the last analysis we are gov erned by public Opinion, of which the President is chief exponent. He is the country's spokesman, not merely by' custom but by express Constitutional provision and man date. He is directed to inform Congress from time to time concerning the vital interests of the United States. He is also made the spokesman of the country in its dealings with foreign governments. The President's Messages to Congress are not merely a form of communication between the executive and the law making authority, but they are intended to give information and guidance to the citizenship. Thus we have a surprising quantity of important historical and governmental material of an authoritative kind in the unbroken series of Presiden tial messages and addresses, beginning with the first in augural of George Washington and coming down to the latest official utterance of Woodrow Wilson. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
