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"No doubt the best-publicized recent book-length work on Congress is columnist George Will's diatribe in praise of term limits in which the core of his complaint is that Congress does not deliberate in its decision-making. Readers who are inclined to share that fantast would do well to consult the work of Joseph M. Bessette. He turns up massive amounts of material attesting to the centrality of deliberation in congressional life."Bessette, Joseph M. is the author of 'Mild Voice of Reason Deliberative Democracy and American National Government', published 1997 under ISBN 9780226044248 and ISBN 0226044246.
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