| Charles Warren - 1911 - 608 pages
...interest to their natural taste for public order. If I were asked where I place the American Aristocracy, I should reply without hesitation, that it is not composed of the rich, who are united by no common tie, but that it occupies the judicial bench and the bar." The third factor in the movement... | |
| 1918 - 1048 pages
...interest to their natural taste for public order. If I were asked where I place the American aristocracy, I should reply without hesitation that it is not composed...occupies the judicial bench and the bar. . . . The lawyers of the United States form a party which is but little feared and scarcely perceived, which... | |
| Simeon Eben Baldwin - 1919 - 216 pages
...link of the two great classes of society. " If I were asked where I place the American aristocracy, I should reply without hesitation, that it is not...that it occupies the judicial bench and the bar." The half century which followed the publication of Democracy in America, as Lord Bryce has remarked, reduced... | |
| 1883 - 998 pages
...American aristocracy, I should reply, without hesitation, that it is not among the rich, who are united by no common tie, but that it occupies the judicial bench and bar." Again, contrasting American lawyers with others, he says, "A French observer is surprised to... | |
| South Carolina Bar Association - 1921 - 306 pages
...interest to their natural taste for public ordefr. If I were asked where I place the American aristocracy, I should reply without hesitation, that it is not...tie, but that it occupies the judicial Bench and the Balr. The more we reflect upon all that occurs in the United States, the more shall we be persuaded... | |
| Alabama State Bar Association - 1922 - 1092 pages
...the two great classes of society. If I were asked," said he. "where I place the American aristocracy, I should reply without hesitation, that it is not...that it occupies the judicial bench and the bar." Of the learned professions, that of law, next to the Christian ministry affords the greatest opportunity... | |
| Henry Steele Commager - 1950 - 504 pages
...most cultivated circle of society. ... If I were asked where I would place the American aristocracy I should reply without hesitation that it is not composed of the rich . . . but that it occupies the judicial bench and bar." The dignity, prosperity, and influence of the... | |
| 1890 - 838 pages
...bond and connecting link of the two great classes of society. " The American aristocracy," he adds, " is not composed of the rich, who are united together by no common tie, but it occupies the judicial bench and the bar." That other wise observer of our own day, Prof. BRYCE,... | |
| United States. Law Enforcement Assistance Administration - 1976 - 184 pages
...American aristocracy, I should reply without hesitation that it is not among the rich, who are united by no common tie, but that it occupies the judicial bench and bar. It may be surmised that de Tocqueville's acquaintance with the bar was limited to well educated... | |
| Iowa State Bar Association - 1905 - 822 pages
...more than half a century earlier, declared : "If I were asked where I place the American aristocracy, I should reply without hesitation that it is not composed...common tie, but that it occupies the judicial bench and bar." Said the late Chief Justice Ryan of Wisconsin, echoing this sentiment with less of moderation:... | |
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