Congressional government

Books by Woodrow Wilson
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CONGRESSIONAL GOVERNMENT. A Study in American Politics. 16mo, $1.25.
MERE LITERATURE, and Other Essays, 12mo, $1.50.
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY BOSTON AND NEW YORK
BY WOODROW WILSON
BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge
COPYRIGHT, 1885, BY WOODROW WILSON ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
To His Father, THE PATIENT GUIDE OF HIS YOUTH, THE GRACIOUS COMPANION OF HIS MANHOOD, HIS BEST INSTRUCTOR AND MOST LENIENT CRITIC, This Book IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED BY THE AUTHOR.
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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 convinced 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 remember 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 modifications, 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.