 | Woodrow Wilson - 1901 - 374 páginas
...account worth publishing. They are as a rule the pleas of special pleaders, the arguments of advocates. They have about them none of the searching, critical,...of principles. They could scarcely either inform or elevate public opinion, even if they were to obtain its heed. For the instruction and elevation of... | |
 | Jeffrey Tulis - 1987 - 224 páginas
...the model of legal litigation as their mode of discussion. As Wilson characterized committee debates: They have about them none of the searching, critical,...joust between antagonistic interests, not a contest of principles.15 Finally, because debates were hidden away in committee, technical, and interest-based,... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson, Ronald J. Pestritto - 2005 - 294 páginas
...account worth publishing. They are as a rule the pleas of special pleaders, the arguments of advocates. They have about them none of the searching, critical,...of principles. They could scarcely either inform or elevate public opinion, ever if they were to obtain its heed. For the instruction and elevation of... | |
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... their views upon the revision of the tariff. The speeches made before the Committees at their open sessions are, therefore, scarcely of such a kind as would be instructive to the public, and on that account worth publishing. They are as a rule the... 