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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Democracy In America, Volume 1 by Alexis de Toqueville: obtain a perch of land by the decision of the court. This
abnegation of his own opinion, and this implicit deference to the
opinion of his forefathers, which are common to the English and
American lawyer, this subjection of thought which he is obliged
to profess, necessarily give him more timid habits and more
sluggish inclinations in England and America than in France.
The French codes are often difficult of comprehension, but
they can be read by every one; nothing, on the other hand, can be
more impenetrable to the uninitiated than a legislation founded
upon precedents. The indispensable want of legal assistance
which is felt in England and in the United States, and the high
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