 | 1836 - 564 pàgines
...profession, as a body, form the most powerful, if not the only counterpoise to the democratic element. When the American people is intoxicated by passion,...by the impetuosity of its ideas, it is checked and moderated by the almost invisible influence of its legal counsellors, who secretly oppose their aristocratic... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1848 - 916 pàgines
...most powerful, if not the only counterpoise to the democratic element. In that country we perceive how eminently the legal profession is qualified by its powers, and even by its defects, to neuiralize the vices which are inherent in popular government. When the American people is intoxicated... | |
 | 1921 - 510 pàgines
...people. The words of de Tocqueville, spoken in 1835, are appropriate: "When the American people are intoxicated by passion, or carried away by the impetuosity...almost invisible influence of its legal counsellors." This influence, said the French Sage, is the only assurance under a strong republic of democracy in... | |
 | Ohio State Bar Association - 1923 - 292 pàgines
...most powerful, if not the only, counterpoise to the democratic element. In that country we perceive how eminently the legal profession is qualified by...is intoxicated by passion, or carried away by the impetuousity of its ideas, it is checked and stopped by the almost invisible influence of its legal... | |
 | Ohio State Bar Association - 1922 - 272 pàgines
...lawyers, as a body, form the most powerful, if not the only counterpoise to the Democratic element. When the American people is intoxicated by passion,...almost invisible influence of its legal counsellors.' But another impartial foreigner, writing in recent years, Lord Bryce, in 'The American Commonwealth,'... | |
 | Ohio State Bar Association - 1912 - 246 pàgines
...American lawyers many years ago, called them the greatest conservative force in American society. He said, "When the American people is intoxicated by passion...checked and stopped by the almost invisible influence if its legal counsellors." Let us not carry our conservatism to the verge of "superstitious attachmeat... | |
 | Bar Association of the State of Kansas - 1890 - 478 pàgines
...people." On another occasion the same eminent commentator upon the American republic declared that the legal profession is "qualified by its powers,...the vices which are inherent in popular government." "It extends over the whole community and it penetrates into all classes of society. It acts upon the... | |
 | Southern New Hampshire Bar Association - 1895 - 486 pàgines
...all. It is as true now as when De Tocqueville wrote, that the legal profession in the United States is "qualified by its powers, and even by its defects,...the vices which are inherent in popular government." He wrote : — "The lawyers of the United States form a party which is hut little feared and scarcely... | |
 | Maryland State Bar Association - 1912 - 372 pàgines
...lawyers many years ago. called them the greatest conservative force in American society. He said : "When the American people is intoxicated by passion...almost invisible influence of its legal counsellors." Let us not carry our conservatism to the verge of "superstitious attachment to what is unique," and... | |
 | 1898 - 402 pàgines
...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 even by its defects,...the vices which are inherent in popular government." Few persons probably realize the extent of the influence upon public questions exerted by this body... | |
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The more we reflect upon all that occurs in the United States the more shall we be persuaded that the lawyers as a body form the most powerful, if not the only counterpoise to the democratic element. In that country we see how eminently the legal profession... 
