The members of the Supreme Court, which is the guardian of the constitution, are selected from among the lower judges.

When a vacancy in that court occurs, those of the lower judges, whose terms expire that year, select, as their last official act, the one of their colleagues left on the bench whom they deem fittest to fill it." "There being no legal profession to serve as a school for judges," I said, "they must, of course, come directly from the law school to the bench." "We have no such things as law schools," replied the doctor smiling.
"The law as a special science is obsolete.

It was a system of casuistry which the elaborate artificiality of the old order of society absolutely required to interpret it, but only a few of the plainest and simplest legal maxims have any application to the existing state of the world.

Everything touching the relations of men to one another is now simpler, beyond any comparison, than in your day.

We should have no sort of use for the hair-splitting experts who presided and argued in your courts.