On the record
Let this course be pursued a few years, and the enormous proportion of lawyer-legislators would be diminished by one-half.
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Victoria C. Woodhull
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Editor's note · Context
Woodhull suggests that if more workers were elected, the number of lawyer-legislators would significantly decrease.
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