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Agenda IV.B.3 Gerhard Casper* INTRODUCTION AND SURVEY OF TYPES OF COMMITTEES Intent on showing the American constitutional system "as it looks in operation," the young Woodrow Wilson asserted that the United States had a system of "congressional government" and that Congress delegated not only its legislative but also its deliberative functions to its standing committees. While Wilson himself was soon t o abandon the first of these propositions, the second continues to be valid, at least to a certain degree. As stated by one contemporary student of the congressional committee system, committees "matter", but they differ in "their influence in congressional decision mak ing, their autonomy, their success on the chamber floor, their expertise, the control exercised by their chairmen, and their domination by the executive branch." While the actualities of political rule in the United States during a given historical period may most accurately be characterized as congressional government, executive dominance, as plebiscitarian, or as reflecting the desires of special interest groups and elites, for purposes of understanding the Congress and its committee system, it is nevertheless indispensable to use as one's starting point the constitutional doctrine of checks and balances. However similar in some important respects the
American Journal of Comparative Law – Oxford University Press
Published: Dec 1, 1978
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