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The reason Southern lawyers in the Congress are conservatives is their Southern origin. 0.900

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Simplified: Southern lawyers' conservatism is due to Southern origin

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Most lawyers are upper-middle-class in status and orientation. 0.900

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Simplified: Most lawyers are upper-middle-class in status and orientation

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The real purpose of legal jargon is to block legislation. 0.800

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Simplified: Legal jargon's real purpose is to block legislation

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Congressmen are masters of the delaying action. 0.900

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Simplified: Congressmen are masters of delaying action

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The legal mentality can serve as a constraint on the legislative imagination. 0.800

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Simplified: Legal mentality can serve as constraint on legislative imagination

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Several nonlawyers are more critical in their assessments of their colleagues. 0.900

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Simplified: Nonlawyers are more critical in their assessments of colleagues

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Physicians, professors, ministers and journalists have all had successful careers in both Houses of Congres 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Law

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

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IN the office of the legislative counsel of each house, an expert and nonpartisan staff performs the technical tasks of looking up precedents and framing proposed legislation in statutory language. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Law

Simplified: An expert and nonpartisan staff performs the technical tasks of looking up precedents and framing proposed legislation in statutory language in the of...

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There are also lawyers on the committee staffs who draft and revise bills as they proceed through the gamut of conferences and compromise. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Law

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

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Some of these lawyers are lobbyists representing special interests. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Law

Simplified: Some of these lawyers are lobbyists representing special interests

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What most voters do not know, however, is that Congressmen have long since given up the actual job of writing the bills they enact into law. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Law

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

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2 months ago
In many cases, they ran with the awareness that being a candidate is a form of “ethical advertising” for the young man who needs to build up a practice. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Law

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

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2 months ago
Political activity can be rewarding for a lawyer: courts appoint trustees, guardians and referees and as often as not these remunerative assignments are bestowed on lawyers with records of party servi... 0.900

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Simplified: Political activity can be rewarding for a lawyer courts appoint trustees guardians and referees and these assignments are bestowed on lawyers with rec...

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In essence, Tocqueville said that a truly democratic society will recruit its politicians on the basis of individual talent, rather than class or family background. 1.000

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

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In such a setting, lawyers are likely to possess both the skills and the opportunities that ease their entry onto the political scene. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Law

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

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2 months ago
Most of the 250,000 attorneys practicing in this country are self‐employed and they can, if they are so inclined, make time for all of the favors, errands and meetings that com 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Law , Business , Statistics

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

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Both Britain and France have been able to draw for their lawmakers on groups of citizens — ranging from people of inherited wealth to trade‐union functionaries—who are either unavailable or unaccept... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Law , Historical

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

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Finally, 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. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Law

Simplified: 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

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2 months ago
While there is no such thing as a “typical” Congressman, what does stand out is that by training and occupation a majority of our Senators and Representatives are lawyers. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Law

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

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No other country has drawn on its legal profession to a comparable extent. 0.950

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Law , Historical

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

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