ABSTRACT
The President of the United States was intended by the makers of the Constitution to be a reformed and standardized king, after the Whig model; and Congress was meant to be a reformed and properly regulated parliament. This chapter focuses on the House of Representatives. By natural consequence, the organization of legislative houses is entirely unlike that of Parliament. The House of Representatives is by intention the popular chamber, meant to represent the people by direct election through an extensive suffrage, while the Senate was designed to represent the states as political units, as the constituent members of the Union. In producing a single committee and securing for it the right to conduct the government, the House of Commons has, it must be admitted, done a more effective tiling than the House of Representatives has done in producing an omnipotent Speaker and fifty-seven committees, and has obtained for itself much greater power.
