[MeanWestTexan]

Of the 55 signatories to the Declaration of Independence 35 of them were lawyers of some kind.

I am not a lawyer, but the malignment of lawyers as a group is silly.

[AuntB]

“

Of the 55 signatories to the Declaration of Independence 35 of them were lawyers of some kind.

I am not a lawyer, but the malignment of lawyers as a group is silly.”

I didn’t malign them as a group, but as ‘legislators’.....have you noticed the “law” has been reinvented recently and nothing good happens in this country because of the LAWYERS running it?

Our Constitution, and the Declaration are, if nothing else, about balance. And the lawyers have us WAY out of balance.

BTW, I count 25 of the signers were lawyers.

http://www.usconstitution.net/declarsigndata.html

And many of our founders tried to warn us:

“It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.” James Madison