Download or read book The Election of Senators (Classic Reprint) written by George H. Haynes and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-12 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Election of Senators The present position of the United States Senate is one of strange contradictions. Never before has it been at once so berated and so extolled. The press teems with denunciations of the "usurpations" by which, it is alleged, the Senate has encroached upon the most distinctive powers of the President and of the House, arrogating to itself the appointment of officers and the making of treaties, and taking from the direct representatives of the people the power of the purse. On the other hand, in these days of centralization and expansion, if not of socialism, men of conservative temper find their chief ground for reassurance in the belief that upon the Senate, if upon nothing else, we may rely to restrain the expanding powers of the Executive, and to check the raw haste and partisanship of the rule-ridden House. Between the critics, hostile and friendly, there is one point of agreement: the acknowledgment that the Senate has become the dominant branch of Congress, the controlling influence in the government. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.