TY - BOOK AU - Miller,Mark Carlton TI - The high priests of American politics: the role of lawyers in American political institutions SN - 0870499025 AV - KF299.L4 M55 1995 U1 - 328.73/092/2 20 PY - 1995/// CY - Knoxville PB - University of Tennessee Press KW - Lawyers in politics KW - United States KW - Legislators KW - политика KW - США KW - законодательство KW - законоведы KW - правоведение KW - законодательная деятельность KW - конгресс KW - Politics KW - lawyers KW - legislation KW - law KW - Congress N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. [185]-222) and index; 1. The study of politics and of lawyers -- 2. Socialization into the legal profession -- 3. Lawyers, lawyers everywhere -- 4. The prevalence of lawyer-legislators in the United States -- 5. Are lawyers really different from nonlawyers? -- 6. How lawyer-legislators and nonlawyer-legislators view the courts -- 7. Are all lawyer-legislators the same?: a typology --8. Lawyers congressional committees -- 9. Lawyers' views and lawyers' ways: the institutional effects of lawyer-politicians ER -