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The portrait of Donald Trump, painted just after he left office in 2021, has never been publicly seen for a number of reasons. 1.000

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Simplified: Portrait of Donald Trump painted after he left office in 2021 has never been publicly seen for a number of reasons

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2 months ago
the real danger today is that the Congress is becoming alienated from the mainstream of the country's life. 0.900

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Simplified: The real danger today is that Congress is becoming alienated from the mainstream of the country's life.

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2 months ago
We know very little about what voters “want” from their Congressmen or how much they like what they ultimately get. 0.900

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Simplified: We know little about what voters want from Congressmen.

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2 months ago
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

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

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2 months ago
Many of these lawyers continue as partners in their old firms, and the question arises whether all the legal business that comes their way is inspired by wholly disinterested motives. 0.900

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Simplified: Many lawyers continue as partners in old firms.

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2 months ago
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 subvers... 0.900

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

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2 months ago
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

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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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2 months ago
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

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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
Some of these lawyers are lobbyists representing special interests. 0.900

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Simplified: Some of these lawyers are lobbyists representing special interests

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

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

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2 months ago
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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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

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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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2 months ago
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

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

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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2 months ago
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

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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
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

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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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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

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

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

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

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2 months ago
“The government of democracy is favorable to the political power of lawyers,” Alexis de Tocqueville wrote more than a century ago, and the early history of our nation confirmed his observations. 1.000

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

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

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2 months ago
In the final analysis much of the criticism turns on the character and quality of the men and women who actually transact the nation's legislative business. 0.900

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

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2 months ago