Carolina QuotesCongress in session is Congress on public exhibition, whilst Congress in its committee-rooms is Congress at work.
Woodrow Wilson Connected to the Carolinas
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Congressional Government, A Study in American Politics (1885; republished 1981), chapter 2, p. 69 (1981)
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- 1885
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- p. 69
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