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The Constitution established two-year terms in the House of Representatives in order to make it the body most accountable to the voters. Yet the near-complete success of incumbents has transformed the House of Representatives from the most responsive to t


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L. Gordon Crovitz is assistant editorial-page editor of the Wall Street Journal and co-editor (with Jeremy A. Rabkin) of The Fettered Presidency: Legal Constraints on the Executive Branch (American Enterprise Institute).

 

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