 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
 | Delos Franklin Wilcox - Recall - 1912 - 364 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." Here is the balance-wheel of democracy which explained to De Tocqueville the unusual stability of the... | |
 | National Education Association of the United States - Education - 1915 - 1214 pages
...democratic institutions could long be sustained; 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." Even tho we take a more modest view of the lawyer's work than do these eminent men, we must still concede... | |
 | Michigan State Bar Association - 1917 - 662 pages
...institutions more." "I question," said he, "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." Lawyers know the charted course of the supremacy of our federal constitution and the majesty of the... | |
 | Law - 1918 - 1048 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. ... In America there are no nobles or men of letters, and the people are apt to mistrust the wealthy;... | |
 | Constitutional law - 1920 - 560 pages
...those institutions more. 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." Lawyers know the charted course of the supremacy of our federal Constitution and the majesty of the... | |
 | Canadian Bar Association - Law - 1922 - 392 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... | |
 | William Wilson Cook - Aliens - 1927 - 424 pages
...republic together without sacrifice of its democratic principles. De Tocqueville saw this when he said, "I cannot believe that a republic could subsist at the...increase in proportion to the power of the people." 1 Storm and stress is the life of Washington, and in the conflicts of sections and the clashing of... | |
 | Law - 1920 - 512 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... | |
 | Constitutional law - 1920 - 270 pages
...those institutions more. 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." Lawyers know the charted course of the supremacy of our federal Constitution and the majesty of the... | |
 | Rhode Island Bar Association - Bar associations - 1904 - 52 pages
...wrote about us in 1835, said: "I cannot believe that a republic could subsist in the United States at the present time, if the influence of lawyers in...increase in proportion to the power of the people." That is the reason. That most statesmanlike jurist, Mr. Justice Harlan, at the Centennial of the Adoption... | |
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