[fatnotlazy]

I found it interesting that President Lincoln and others practiced law without having graduated from college or a law school. I don't suppose there were any formal educational requirements necessary to just hang out your shingle and start practicing.

Obviously, not having a formal higher education worked well for President Lincoln and the others. So why is it so important to Howard Dean and the rest of the media azzhats?

[cripplecreek]

I’m guessing most of our laws were much simpler in those days, not to mention the fact there were fewer of them.

[Vermont Lt]

I think there was still a Bar in Illinois.

I am not sure you have to have a JD to sit for the Bar nowadays. I could be wrong.

[Morpheus2009]

As long as you could pass a certifying exam back in the day, it did not matter how you learned the information, whether self-taught or otherwise, you passed, you could practice law. The only reason Howard Dean is making it a deal is because he is arguing that since Scott Walker hasn’t completed a degree, he doesn’t know basic information about what is going on in the world or some other random BS.