By some other constitutions the members of the tribunals are elected, and they are even subjected to frequent re-elections.

I venture to predict that these innovations will sooner or later be attended with fatal consequences, and that it will be found out at some future period that the attack which is made upon the judicial power has affected the democratic republic itself.
[Footnote a: See chapter VI.

on the "Judicial Power in the United States."] It must not, however, be supposed that the legal spirit of which I have been speaking has been confined, in the United States, to the courts of justice; it extends far beyond them.

As the lawyers constitute the only enlightened class which the people does not mistrust, they are naturally called upon to occupy most of the public stations.

They fill the legislative assemblies, and they conduct the administration; they consequently exercise a powerful influence upon the formation of the law, and upon its execution.