70 Year Magazine Archive

The Revolt Against Congress

by Frank S. Meyer

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The federal courts and the White House are determined to emasculate Congress. At stake: our political system. And only Congress itself can fight this scheme

In the devious way in which revolutionary changes are engineered in this age of mass communications, the public is presently being conditioned to accept a constitutional transformation of fateful import. At stake is the survival of sufficient congressional power to balance the enormously swollen power of the modern Executive; and therewith, the survival of the most fundamental principle of American government—an effective system of checks and balances.

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