...public exhibition, while Con gress in its Committee rooms is Congress at work. I know not how better to describe our form of government in a single phrase than by calling it a government by chairmen of the Standing Committees of Congress. This disintegrate Ministry, as it figures on the floor...

...which deals incisively with this question, the author says : " I know not how better to describe our government in a single phrase than by calling it a...chairmen of the standing committees of congress." (W. Wilson, Congressional Government: a Study in American Politics, Boston, 1885.) This exaggerates,...

...know not how better," says Mr. Woodrow Wilson, the American writer whom I have already quoted from, " to describe our form of government in a single phrase...committees do not constitute a co-operative body like our Ministry. " They do not consult and concur in the adoption of homogeneous and mutually helpful...

...them, and there is small use in printing a " Record " which he will not read. I know not how better to describe our form of government in a single phrase...the chairmen of the Standing Committees of Congress. This disintegrate ministry, as it figures on the floor of the House of Representatives, has many peculiarities....

...the states. "I know not how better to describe our form of government in a single phrase," he wrote, "than by calling it a government by the chairmen of the standing committees. . . . This disintegrate ministry . . . has many peculiarities. In the first place, it is made up of...

...summarizes his long and detailed description of the working of our political system : I know not how better to describe our form of government in a single phrase...than by calling it a government by the Chairmen of standing committees of Congress . . . forty-eight ' ' little legislatures ' ' (to borrow Senator Hoar's...

...Committees," in which the two principles of leadership and control have been confused. I know not how better to describe our form of government in a single phrase than by calling it a government by the chairman of standing committees of Congress. This disintegrated ministry, as it figures on the floor...

...public exhibition, while Congress in its committee-rooms is Congress at work. I know not how better to describe our form of government in a single phrase than by calling it a government by chairmen of the Standing Committees of Congress. This disintegrate ministry, as it figures on the floor...

...as many standing committees as there are classes of legislation * * * The chairmen of the standing committees do not constitute a cooperative body like...They do not consult and concur in the adoption of a homogeneous and mutually helpful measures; there is no thought of acting in concert. Each committee...

...therne runs all through Chapter II and is epitomized in this passage at p. 102: "I know not how better to describe our form of government in a single phrase...chairmen of the standing Committees of Congress." the whole, to be carried through in committee. The House at large surrenders control, subject to the...