Foreword
When President Abraham Lincoln delivered his famous Gettysburg Address at a cemetery for Union soldiers during the Civil War, he told his audience: “We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this Nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.” For many, the phrase “by the people, for the people” has come to define the American system of democracy. In the new Congress, Democrats, now in control of the House, have adopted…
