当我们临近美国宪法及宪法产生的国会诞生两百周年之际,考虑一下联邦政府的立法机构在近两百年的历史中是如何发展的,是适时和必要的,倘若察看一下国会依据宪法创始人所设想的方式如今发展为何等状况,察看一下国会的演变过程有多少是宪法起草人始末料及的,或许会是桩既有趣又有益的工作。以政党发展为例,现在已难以想象我们的政府在没有一个强大的两党制情况下能移运转 As we approach the bicennial anniversary of the birth of the United States Constitution and the Congress, it is timely and necessary to consider how the federal government’s legislature has developed over nearly two hundred years of history. If we look at the constitutional basis of the Congress The way the envisaged approach is evolving today and looking at how much the congressional evolution has been drafted by the drafters of the Constitution may be a useful and rewarding piece of work. Taking the development of political parties as an example, it is hard to imagine that our government will be able to shift operations without a strong two-party system