 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
 | West Virginia Bar Association - Bar associations - 1886 - 820 pages
...cannot believe that a republic could subsist, at tht' present time, if the influence of lawyers in the public business, did not increase in proportion to the power of the people." Gentlemen ! Have you ever considered how wide, diversified and vital the relations are, which your... | |
 | 1892 - 180 pages
...cannot believe," said De Tncqueville, "that a Kepublic could hope to exist at the present time if the lawyers in public business did not increase in proportion to the power of the people." It may be asked why is it that the lawyer seems ever to act with the people, or why may he be said... | |
 | Southern New Hampshire Bar Association - Bar associations - 1895 - 486 pages
...observer of our institutions, who, after a careful (study of them in every aspect, wrote : — " I cannot believe that a republic could subsist at the...increase in proportion to the power of the people." i And in the statement of Mr. Justice Harlau, who, at the celebration of the centennial of the adoption... | |
 | Jay Ford Laning - Law - 1896 - 430 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." The work and influence of the legal profession in our country since our national life began in moulding... | |
 | George Irving Reed, Emilius Oviatt Randall, Charles Theodore Greve - Courts - 1897 - 742 pages
...as early as 1835, wrote these remarkable words: 'I cannot believe that a republic could subsistât the present time if the influence of lawyers in public...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,... | |
 | Law - 1898 - 402 pages
...be shown beyond question. I)e Tocqueville, a most intelligent student of our institutions, says : "I cannot believe that a republic could subsist at the...increase in proportion to the power of the people," and ag.ain he observes that the legal profession in theUnited States is "qualified by its powers, and... | |
 | John Bigelow, Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1899 - 538 pages
...democratic principle, I question whether democratic institutions could long be maintained, and I can not believe that a republic could subsist at the present...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... | |
 | Law - 1900 - 322 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." The work and influence of the legal profession in our country since our national life began in moulding... | |
 | Oscar Tully Shuck - Biography - 1901 - 1236 pages
...the democratic principle, I question whether democratic institutions can long be maintained, and I cannot believe that a republic could subsist at the...the influence of lawyers in public business did not rhcrease in proportion to the power of the people.' "Sir, it was the skill and wisdom of lawyers that... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - Democracy - 1904 - 514 pages
...democratic principle, I question whether democratic institutions could long be maintained, and I can not believe that a republic could subsist at the present...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... | |
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