 | 1836 - 726 pàgines
...democratic institutions could long be maintained ; and 1 cannot believe that a republic could exist at the present time if the influence of lawyers in...increase in proportion to the power of the people." — (Vol. If., pp. 180 — 1.) It may indeed be doubted, whether this supposititious aristocratic influence,... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1839 - 714 pàgines
...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...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... | |
 | Peter Freeland Aiken - 1842 - 206 pàgines
...democratic institutions could long be maintained ; and I cannot believe that a republic could subsist at the present time, if the influence of lawyers,...increase in proportion to the power of the people :" — a slender hope for republican institutions. The position which the senate occupies in the American... | |
 | Peter Freeland Aiken - 1842 - 212 pàgines
...democratic institutions could long be maintained; and I cannot believe that a republic could subsist at the present time, if the influence of lawyers,...did not increase in proportion to the power of the people:"—a slender hope for republican institutions. The position which the senate occupies in the... | |
 | Samuel Owen - 1847 - 490 pàgines
...be eminently conservative," &c. And again he says, " I cannot believe that a Republic could subsist at the present time, if the influence of lawyers in...did not increase in proportion to the power of the people."t Some, perhaps, may deny this salutary influence to the legal profession, or even dislike... | |
 | 1847 - 784 pàgines
...conservative," &c. And again he says, " I cannot believe that a Republic could subsist at the present lime, if the influence of lawyers in public business did not increase in proportion to Uie power of the people."! » Hea«e» the terms "Aristocratic" an.l " Dctnorr.itii1," in tiwir generic,... | |
 | 1847 - 814 pàgines
...conservative," &c. And again he says, " I cannot believe that a Republic could subsist at the present lime, if the influence of lawyers in public business did not increase in proportion lo the power of the people. "f * Ho uses the terms " Aristocratic" an:I " Democratic," in their generic,... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville - 1850 - 488 pàgines
...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...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 - 1851 - 954 pàgines
...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...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 - 1854 - 492 pàgines
...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...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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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. 
