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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
The big name law schools do not even teach precedent anymore. They aren’t interested in past interpretations of the law, only the perverted new interpretations of restorative justice. Harvard was the first to announce this move away from teaching precedent, but many of the others have followed and have graduated at least one class of these new lawyers.
They seem to have a difficult time passing the boards, though. They tell me that passing the boards isn’t really necessary, that a lot of the work can be done without entering a court room.