ABSTRACT
The Nation, abandoning its former editorial policy, and The New Republic moved into the ideological vanguard during the 1920's, as democratism swept toward the national ascendancy that it has since solidified and maintained. As the democratist ideology became intellectually predominant, the liberal ideologues, and those whose opinions had been formed by the liberals, gradually took over many of the seats of national power. On a national scale, then, Congress has been dropping in relative power along a descending curve of sixty years' duration, with the rate of fall markedly increased since 1933. On a world scale the fall of the American Congress seems to be correlated with a more general historical transformation toward political and social forms within which the representative assembly. An "assembly dictatorship" is an idea much bruited by the current defenders of executive supremacy, and occasionally mentioned by some of the Fathers.
