“Hidden at the bottom of the soul of the American lawyers,” said Alexis de Tocqueville, perhaps the keenest observer of American democracy, is “a great repugnance to the actions of the multitude, and a secret contempt of the government of the people.”
Far from being a bad thing, for Tocqueville at least, that secret contempt was a valuable tool. A necessity, even.
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