National Committee

Definition and stakes

Portrait of William Bennett Munro William Bennett Munro,  Social Civics (1922)

“ The chief permanent organ of each party is a national committee made up of one member from each state, who 158is either chosen by the voters at the primary election or selected by the delegates from the state to the national convention. The national committee chooses its own chairman, who has general charge of the party’s interests in the campaign; but in making its choice the national committee usually defers to the wishes of the party’s presidential candidate. ”
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1911 Encyclopædia Britannica (1911)

“ There is, of course, a committee for every state, and at the head of the whole stands a national committee for the whole Union, whose special function it is to make arrangements for the conduct of party work at a presidential election. ”
Source: Wikisource

Portrait of Woodrow Wilson Woodrow Wilson,  An old master, and other political essays (1893)

“ It has been impossible to carry out the programme of the Constitution; and, without careful reform, the national legislature will even more dangerously approach the perilous model of a mass meeting. There are several ways in which Congress can be so integrated as to impart to its proceedings system and party responsibility. That may be done by entrusting the preparation and initiation of legislation to a single committee in each house, composed of the leading men of the majority in that house. ”
Source: Gutenberg

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