The Business of Congress (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from The Business of Congress IN the Winter of 1908 - 1909 I delivered a course of eight lectures at Columbia University on the Business of Congress, and, somewhat revised, they are presented in this volume. It was my chief purpose to portray the important processes of legislation, avoiding, however, the technicality essential in a parliamentary manual, to pre sent the reasons underlying them, and to give a study in government with Congress as the central theme. The time when the lectures were given must be borne in mind in order fully to understand the allusions to political con ditions, as well as to the rules of procedure. I have, how ever, referred in foot-notes to the important changes in the rules made prior to the Congress which has just convened. 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.