TO SPEAK. This term is used in the English law, to signify the permission given by a court to the prosecutor and defendant in some cases of misdemeanor, to agree together, after which the prosecutor comes into court and declares himself to be satisfied; when the court pass a nominal sentence. 1 Chit. Pr. 17.

A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution and Laws of the United States. By John Bouvier. Published 1856.

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Kate: I think that's where we're heading, especially for patients who cannot speak for themselves.

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I speak for those whose land is being laid waste, whose homes are being destroyed, whose culture is being subverted.

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There were many reasons the original liberal republicans felt foreign policy should be for leaders and specialists: from anxiety about warlike mass opinion; to the worry that typical voters would be ignorant of issues beyond their daily sphere of experience; to the 18th-century presumption that great states require powerful diplomats to speak for them; to simple fear that affairs between nations would become hopelessly cumbersome if, in effect, everybody had to be consulted.

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