Legislation, character of, determined by privileges of Committees and necessity for haste, [74]; compromise character of, in Congress, [101]; conglomerate and heterogeneous, [113], [325]; part of President in, by virtue of veto power, [260], [266]; and administration contrasted, [273], [274]; Buckle on present value of, [295]; nature of present task of, [295], [296]; generates legislation, [297]; not more important than administration, [297]; general function of, [301], [302]; tendency toward widening sphere of, [316], [317].
Legislative service divorced from Executive, in U. S., [251-253].
"Letter" of Secretary of Treasury to Congress, [149], [153].
Lincoln, President, [259], [283], n.
"Literary theory" of the Constitution, [12], [268], [284]; marred by growth of federal powers, [30].
Lobbying in Congress, [189], [190].
Lodge, H. C., quoted with regard to Hamilton, [21], [22].
"Log-rolling," [169].
Lords, House of, Bagehot on, [220].