[Venturer]

What happened to that Amendment to the Constitution that kept lawyers out of government?/ Lost??

[AuntB]

“What happened to that Amendment to the Constitution that kept lawyers out of government?/ Lost??”

There was a state forming before the revolution called the State of Franklin near Georgia/Tennessee. A couple ancestors records show their birthplace as ‘the state of Franklin’. In their constitution no lawyer could be elected. They included preachers and teachers as well, IIRC.

[Joan Kerrey]

What happened to that Amendment to the Constitution that kept lawyers out of government?
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That amendment said nothing about lawyers “in” government and got it pigeonholed.