In his graceful concession speech after President Jimmy Carter and he lost the 1980 election to Ronald Reagan in a landslide, Vice President Walter Mondale said voters had "quietly wielded their staggering power." They did so again last week. The Constitution designed the House to be the federal institution most responsive to gusts of opinion, and this year, with a gale blowing against the Iraq war, the House functioned as the Constitution's framers expected it to.
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