There exists between France and America an intellectual kinship closer than commonly is recognized either side of the Atlantic, outside of the legal profession. The American ideal of representative free government represents the convergence of two great streams of Eighteenth Century liberal thought. One stream flowed from France, from the advanced thinkers of its pre- revolutionary days.
Publication Date
December 2, 1946
Citation
32 A.B.A.J. 319 (1946) (address before the National Legal Movement, Paris, April 2, 1946).
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There exists between France and America an intellectual kinship closer than commonly is recognized either side of the Atlantic, outside of the legal profession. The American ideal of representative free government represents the convergence of two great streams of Eighteenth Century liberal thought. One stream flowed from France, from the advanced thinkers of its pre- revolutionary days.
