Stewards of Democracy: Law as Public Profession

by Paul D. Carrington

Book Overview

Stewards of Democracy is a celebration of a moral tradition famously observed by Alexis de Tocqueville through the eyes of Francis Lieber, a Prussian emigr who in antebellum times wrote of political ethics, hermeneutics, and comparative constitutional law as aspects of the moral duties of American lawyers and judges. The duty of the profession unifying this tradition has been to nurture and protect the institutions of self-government on which depend...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813368324
• ISBN13: 9780813368320
• Release Date: July 1999
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"