In Alma 10:19 Amulek recalls some words from Mosiah, introducing them with the preface, "Well did Mosiah say." The words are a paraphrase and read:
"if the time should come that the voice of this people should choose iniquity, that is, if the time should come that this people should fall into transgression, they would be ripe for destruction."
The precise quote is found in Mosiah 29:27:
And if the time comes that the voice of the people doth choose iniquity, then is the time that the judgments of God will come upon you; yea, then is the time he will visit you with great destruction even as he has hitherto visited this land.
According to Brant Gardner, by using these words of Mosiah, Amulek has strengthened his accusation against the lawyers. He correctly assumes that the lawyers represent the "voice of the people." The reader must be aware that the "voice of the people" was quite different from a "one man, one vote" type of democracy. It was most likely an opinion rendered by clan heads, and in the case of Ammonihah, the elite would have had a greater voice than the commoners. The lawyers, as representatives of the elite range of society would have been directly responsible for the way the voice of the people dictated law. In Ammonihah, it was apparently the order of Nehor that controlled the voice of the people, and the lawyers were certainly part of that order. Amulek is quite correct in laying the blame for Ammonihah's destruction at the feet of the lawyers, and by extension the other elite who supported the order of Nehor. [Brant Gardner, "Book of Mormon Commentary," [http://www.highfiber.com/~nahualli/] LDStopics/Alma/Alma10.htm, pp. 10-11]