 I question whether democratic institutions could long be maintained ; and I cannot ' believe that a republic could subsist at the present time, if the influence of lawyers in public business did not increase in proportion to the power of the people.  Transactions - Page 8by Maryland State Bar Association - 1911Full view - About this book
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1899 - 514 pages
...the democratic principle, I question whether democratic institutions could long be maintained, and I cannot believe that a republic could subsist at the...increase in proportion to the power of the people. This aristocratic character, which I hold to be common to the legal profession, is much more distinctly... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - Constitutional history - 1870 - 628 pages
...democratic institutions could long be maintained ; and I cannot believe that a republic could hope to exist at the present time, if the influence of lawyers in...did not increase in proportion to the power of the peopfe. This aristocratic character, which I hold to be common to the legal profession, is much more... | |
 | Law - 1884 - 550 pages
...bestowed. And so close an observer as De Toqueville has said: "That a Republic could not long exist, if the influence of lawyers in public business did...increase in proportion to the power of the people." Let ua not be deceived by the thought, that our profession as a whole are naturally or necessarily... | |
 | Law - 1920 - 516 pages
...been passed upon a body of men. But in the course of that chapter he uses these memorable words : "I cannot believe that a republic could subsist at the...increase in proportion to the power of the people." That is a warning which should never be forgotten. It is the language of him who has looked more deeply... | |
 | Ohio State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1894 - 148 pages
...accurate and sagacious observer of our country, as early as 1835, wrote these remarkable words: "I cannot believe that a republic could subsist at the...increase in proportion to the power of the people." Thirty of the fifty-five members of the convention which framed the Federal Constitution were lawyers;... | |
 | Canada - 1921 - 804 pages
...them any sinister designs I question whether democratic institutions could be long maintained and I cannot believe that a republic could subsist at the present time if the influence of the lawyers in public business did not increase in proportion to the power of the people Does it so... | |
 | Chicago (Ill.) - 1882 - 658 pages
...questions whether democratic institutions could long be maintained, or a republic could hope to exist at the present time, if the influence of lawyers in...increase in proportion to the power of the people. But he shows, also, how the profession might become, "as it did become in England under bad reigns,... | |
 | American Bar Association - Bar associations - 1883 - 366 pages
...bestowed. And so close an observer as de Tocqueville has said that "a republic could not long exist, if the influence of lawyers in public business did...increase in proportion to the power of the people." Let us not be deceived by the thought that our profession as a whole are naturally or necessarily on... | |
 | University of Michigan - 1886 - 124 pages
...democratic institutions could long be maintained; and I cannot believe that a republic could hope to exist at the present time, if the influence of lawyers in...increase in proportion to the power of the people." It is because of this relation which exists between the lawyer and the state, because trained lawyers... | |
 | Bar Association of the State of Kansas - Bar associations - 1890 - 478 pages
...dare do to no other. De Tocquevf Ile said, "I cannot believe that a republic could subsist at this time if the influence of lawyers in public business...increase in proportion to the power of the people." On another occasion the same eminent commentator upon the American republic declared that the legal... | |
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