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It is good that there is demand and occasion for publishing a new edition of this sound book by the Director of the Legislative Reference Service of the Library of Congress. Since 1940, Mr. Griffith has served his country well at a post which, for all its academic-seeming title, has proved a strategic key in the never ceasing struggle to shore up the constitutional bulwarks of our republic. He is a well-trained and thoroughly informed scholar. He understands Congress through daily experience as well as by analytic knowledge.

This book is primarily a study of the function of Congress in the context of today’s problems. Two quotations from the author’s preface will suggest, for all their reserved language, how unusual is the author’s standpoint:

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It is good that there is demand and occasion for publishing a new edition of this sound book by the Director of the Legislative Reference Service of the Library of Congress. Since 1940, Mr. Griffith has served his country well at a post which, for all its academic-seeming title, has proved a strategic key in the never ceasing struggle to shore up the constitutional bulwarks of our republic. He is a well-trained and thoroughly informed scholar. He understands Congress through daily experience as well as by analytic knowledge.

This book is primarily a study of the function of Congress in the context of today’s problems. Two quotations from the author’s preface will suggest, for all their reserved language, how unusual is the author’s standpoint: