 | Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve - 1899 - 512 pàgines
...rich, who are united together by no common tie, but that it occupies the judicial bench and the bar. The more we reflect upon all that occurs in the United...most powerful, if not the only, counterpoise to the demo« cratic element. In that country we perceive how eminently the legal profession is qualified... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve - 1899 - 504 pàgines
...rich, who are united together by no common tie, but that it occupies the judicial bench and the bar. The more we reflect upon all that occurs in the United...most powerful, if not the only, counterpoise to the demo, cratic element. In that country we perceive how eminently the legal profession is qualified by... | |
 | Alexis de Tocqueville, Henry Reeve - 1899 - 520 pàgines
...that the lawyers as a body form the most powerful, if not the only, counterpoise to the demo> cratic element. In that country we perceive how eminently...the vices which are inherent in popular government. When the American people is intoxicated by passion, or carried away by the impetuosity of its ideas,... | |
 | 1920 - 584 pàgines
...in the government, is the most powerful existing security against the excesses of democracy. * * * The more we reflect upon all that occurs in the United...not the only counterpoise to the democratic element. * * * When the American people is intoxicated by passion, or carried away by the impetuosity of its... | |
 | Delos Franklin Wilcox - 1912 - 358 pàgines
...form the most powerful, if not the only counterpoise to the democratic element. In that country we see how eminently the legal profession is qualified by...the vices which are inherent in popular government. When the American people is intoxicated by passion, or carried away by the impetuosity of its ideas,... | |
 | Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention - 1918 - 1106 pàgines
...our democratic institutions, prophesied that that very thing would come to pass. The more [he says] we reflect upon all that occurs in the United States,...counterpoise to the democratic element. In that country, we easily perceive how the legal profession is qualified by its attributes, and even by its faults, to... | |
 | American Academy of Political and Social Science - 1922 - 828 pàgines
...powerful existing security against the excesses of democracy." In another sentence he refers to the bar as the "most powerful if not the only counterpoise to the democratic element." A similar conviction is registered in the appeal which is made to the New York State Bar Association... | |
 | 1922 - 336 pàgines
...powerful existing security against the excesses of democracy." In another sentence he refers to the bar as the "most powerful if not the only counterpoise to the democratic element." A similar conviction is registered in the appeal which is made to the New York State Bar Association... | |
 | South Dakota Bar Association - 1897 - 524 pàgines
...rich who are united together by no common tie, but that it occupies the judicial bench and the bar. In that country we perceive how eminently the legal...the vices which are inherent in popular government. When the American people are intoxicated by passion or carried away by the impetuosity of their ideas... | |
 | Rhode Island Bar Association - 1904 - 52 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 said: "The lawyers of the United States form a party which is but little feared and scarcely perceived,... | |
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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. 
