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The lawyers in Congress, no less than their lay colleagues—and often more so—have been quick to respond to the pressure of majority sentiment, even when popular opinion has come down on the side of le... 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Law , Politics

Simplified: Lawyers in Congress quickly respond to majority sentiment even with harmful long-term consequences.

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Alexis de Tocqueville spoke of political lawyers as an “aristocratic element” in a democratic society, and he hoped that through their dedication to individual liberty they might serve as a barrier... 1.000

👤 Alexis de Tocqueville 📋 News Article 🏷️ Law , Politics , History

Simplified: Alexis de Tocqueville described political lawyers as an aristocratic element in a democratic society.

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The members of investigating panels who have legal backgrounds give every indication of having left their professional credentials at the door when they began exposing the presumed misdeeds of subve... 0.800

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Law , Politics

Simplified: Investigating panel members with legal backgrounds appear to abandon professional credentials when exposing misdeeds.

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Most members of the House Committee on Un‐American Activities, for example, have been lawyers, yet they have been almost uniformly insensitive to suggestions that witnesses be permitted to crossexa... 0.800

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Simplified: Most members of the House Committee on Un-American Activities have been lawyers they have been insensitive to cross-examination and presumption of inn...

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If safeguards for witnesses are needed, the demand has been studiously ignored by the Congress. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Government , Politics

Simplified: Congress has ignored demand for witness safeguards if needed.

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Most disturbing was the fact that in both the Senate and the House of Representatives a majority of the lawyer‐Congressmen voted for the bill. 0.900

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Simplified: A majority of lawyer-Congressmen voted for the Jenner-Butler bill in both the Senate and the House.

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That the Senate managed to defeat the proposal was due to the nonlawyers, a majority of whom opposed it. 0.900

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

Simplified: The Senate defeated the Jenner-Butler bill due to nonlawyers a majority of whom opposed it.

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Fortunately, it failed in the Senate—by a margin of one vote: 40 to 41. 1.000

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Law , Politics , History , Statistics

Simplified: The Jenner-Butler bill failed in the Senate by a vote of 40 to 41.

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The bill would have prevented the Court from reviewing state subversive‐control laws even if such legislation patently infringed upon the First Amendment. 0.900

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Simplified: The Jenner-Butler bill would have prevented the Supreme Court from reviewing state subversive-control laws infringing the First Amendment.

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It passed the House, by a vote of 241 to 155. 1.000

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Simplified: The Jenner-Butler bill passed the House by a vote of 241 to 155.

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It was, essentially, an attempt to place severe limits on the appellate jurisdiction of the Supreme Court, especially in the area of civil liberties. 0.900

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

Simplified: The Jenner-Butler bill attempted to severely limit the Supreme Court's appellate jurisdiction especially in civil liberties.

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In fact, 74 of the 106 Southern Representatives are lawyers, a substantially higher proportion than that contributed by any other region. 1.000

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

Simplified: 74 of 106 Southern Representatives are lawyers a higher proportion than any other region.

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In the Senate only Joseph Clark and Clifford Case were prominent corporation counsel before entering politics, and only a handful of their colleagues are products of the top Eastern law schools. 0.900

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Law

Simplified: Joseph Clark and Clifford Case were prominent corporation counsel before entering the Senate only a handful of colleagues are from top Eastern law sch...

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Every member of the Alabama and Arkansas delegations in the current House of Representatives is a lawyer, as are four out of five of Mississippi's Congressmen. 1.000

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

Simplified: Every member of Alabama and Arkansas delegations in the House is a lawyer four out of five Mississippi Congressmen are lawyers.

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More often than not, the real purpose of legal jargon is to block legislation, and raising objections about arcane phraseology can be as apt a way of talking a bill to death in committee as denouncing 0.800

👤 The author 📋 News Article 🏷️ Politics , Law

Simplified: Legal jargon often blocks legislation objections about arcane phraseology can kill a bill in committee.

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It has yet to be shown that training in a particular profession, in and of itself, gives substantial shape to an individual's political outlook; some of the more articulate liberals in the Congress—... 0.700

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Simplified: Training in a profession does not substantially shape an individual's political outlook.

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Congressmen, it hardly need be said, are masters of the delaying action and are well aware that a virtual veto comes into effect as the clock runs out. 0.900

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Simplified: Congressmen are masters of delaying action a virtual veto comes into effect as the clock runs out.

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While nonlawyers are in a Congressional minority, none has found his lack of legal training an impediment to full participation in legislative business. 1.000

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

Simplified: Nonlawyers are a Congressional minority but lack of legal training has not impeded their participation

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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. 1.000

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

Simplified: Legislative counsel offices perform technical tasks of looking up precedents and framing legislation

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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... 1.000

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

Simplified: Political activity can be rewarding for lawyers courts appoint trustees guardians and referees to lawyers with party service records

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