George F. Will: Will Congress be stirred from its slumber?

FILE - In this April 22, 2008 file photo, conservative columnist and pundit George Will appears in this office in the Georgetown section of Washington. Will has parted ways with the Republican Party, changing his voter registration to "unaffiliated" because of the GOP's support of Donald Trump. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) “Congress has been dropping in relative power along a descending curve of 60 years’ duration, with the rate of fall markedly increased since 1933. ... 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 — the major political organism of post-Renaissance Western civilization — does not have a primary political function.”

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