Politics

We know little about what voters want from Congressmen.

Lawyers in Congress are quick to respond to pressure of majority sentiment.

Many lawyers continue as partners in old firms.

Members of investigating panels with legal backgrounds left professional credentials when exposing misdeeds.

Congressmen have long since given up the actual job of writing the bills they enact into law

Some of these lawyers are lobbyists representing special interests

An expert and nonpartisan staff performs the technical tasks of looking up precedents and framing proposed legislation in statutory language in the office of the legislative counsel of each house

Lawyers on the committee staffs draft and revise bills as they proceed through the gamut of conferences and compromise

Physicians professors ministers and journalists have all had successful careers in both Houses of Congress

Lawyers are likely to possess both the skills and the opportunities that ease their entry onto the political scene

Those with a law degree can almost always take up practice again at the close of or in the intervals between spells in public office

Britain and France have been able to draw for their lawmakers on groups of citizens who are unavailable or unacceptable to many American voters

Tocqueville said a truly democratic society will recruit its politicians on the basis of individual talent rather than class or family background

Most of the 250000 attorneys practicing in this country are self-employed

Being a candidate is a form of ethical advertising for the young man who needs to build up a practice

Political activity can be rewarding for a lawyer courts appoint trustees guardians and referees and these assignments are bestowed on lawyers with records of party service

Alexis de Tocqueville wrote the government of democracy is favorable to the political power of lawyers more than a century ago

No other country has drawn on its legal profession to a comparable extent

A majority of Senators and Representatives are lawyers by training and occupation

Criticism turns on the character and quality of the men and women who transact the nation's legislative business