The Speakers of the House (Classic Reprint)
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Excerpt from The Speakers of the House In 1789, when the first Congress convened under Washington, the Speaker of the House of Representatives was merely a moderator, who presided over the sessions of that body with calm deliberation and impartial favor. The prestige of his position lay rather in its honor than in its power. In 1909, after an interval of a hundred and twenty years, the Speaker of the House of Representatives is quite the most potent factor in American legislative life. There is some room for saying that he is even more powerful than the President of the United States. Today the Speaker is the absolute arbiter of our national legislation. He can dictate what laws shall be enacted and what bills shall be defeated. An attempt has been made in this volume to give a brief, dispassionate story of this development of power by the presiding officers of the lower House of Congress. Effort has been made to avoid the dry and technical mysteries of parliamentary law. The book is not intended as a text book on that intricate subject. In the effort to popularize the work all annotations and references have been omitted of purpose. 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.
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