Jurisprudent

"For if belligerent rights were worthy to be gravely discussed by conferences and commissions of very jurisprudent gentlemen, why shall not expectorant rights — never until now discussed or settled, but existing only in the great common or unwritten law of usage—be once for all clearly confirmed, settled, and defined?"

"By this, I wanted to point out how subtle and conscientious our judgment of jurisprudent ideas should be, and what kind of historic approach we have to cherish towards them."

"Nobody should imagine that the fitness of the jurisprudent for rule raises him to the status of prophecy or of Imams because our discussion here is not concerned with status and rank but with the actual task."