ABSTRACT
Woodrow Wilson was a scholar and an academic Student of government long before he was a politician and a president of the United States. He came to the practice of politics after many years of sustained reflection on its nature and purposes. It is not only because of its incapacity to make coherent, consistent public policy that Wilson deplores the dispersed leadership of Congress. The processes by which this disintegrated legislature conducts the public business are too complicated and too obscure for public understanding. The meaning of liberty and of happiness cannot be fixed and specified once and for all. Society is an association in which men cooperate in providing the things necessary for the individual self-development and self-direction of each man; it is a fraternal partnership in the promotion of individuality. The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of bosses and their employers, the special interests.
