Posted on 01/18/2015 4:48:39 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
The entrenched and incestuous relationship between lawyers and the machinery of government is precisely why this country is going down the crapper.
Well put and true.
Lawyers usually tell you what you can’t do, not what is possible. They are not a creative or very productive profession. Ideally they should not be the majority of legislators.
Judging by the caliber of those in Congress, that is not a badge of honor.
The great patriot and tax rebel Irwin Schiff wrote that legislators should surrender their law licenses upon taking the oath of office.
He believed that practicing lawyers are part of the judiciary, and so have no place in the legislature.
well said
I don’t belive this is something to be proud of. These graduates have sent the country down the crapper.
The Bible, Shakespeare, and the Book of Mormon, among other sources, share at least one thing in common. They all have similiar insights about Lawyers
Saint Paul was a lawyer.
Paul studied under the great Rabbi Gamaliel in Jerusalem...when one says he studied the Biblical Law, that is what any Jewish believer studies (what we now call the Hebrew scriptures or the Old Testament). Like going to a good Christian Bible class with a highly revered teacher.
Insofar as what he practiced for a living, however, see Acts 18. I believe he was a tent-maker. And given his travel schedule, tent-making might support him OK but trying to practice as an attorney of Biblical Law ...in Turkey, Greece, and Rome... would not have worked for him, anyway.
IMHO.
Best, regard,
Lincoln was a lawyer.
And he suspended habeas corpus.
Harvard, Yale, Georgetown — there’s our problem right there.
We need a Congress full of engineers. Analytical, no-nonsense, practical, can-do types. Unfortunately, all engineers are too smart to run for Congress.
And Barry Soetoro was a law professor. (wink, wink, nudge, nudge)
Another good reason to ban lawyers from the legislature.
Where is the eloquence of a Washington, an Adams, a Jefferson, or even of a Reagan?
The very nature of the "miracle at Philadelphia" was one of passionate defense of liberty for future generations, selflessness in the face of danger to the personal life and property of the participants, and of a greater interest in the lives and liberties of countrymen than in the careers of themselves.
We pray that Divine Providence will send such leaders for this critical moment in America's history!
Perhaps leaders in Washington today might consider Jefferson's description of how he and his contemporaries in the early days approached matters of interest for the new nation:
Thomas Jefferson:
"Sitting near me on some occasion of a trifling but wordy debate, he asked how I could sit in silence hearing so much false reasoning which a word should refute? I observed to him that to refute indeed was easy, but to silence impossible. That in measures brought forward by myself, I took the laboring oar, as was incumbent on me; but that in general I was willing to listen. If every sound argument or objection was used by some one or other of the numerous debaters, it was enough: if not, I thought it sufficient to suggest the omission, without going into a repetition of what had been already said by others. That this was a waste and abuse of the time and patience of the house which could not be justified. And I believe that if the members of deliberative bodies were to observe this course generally, they would do in a day what takes them a week, and it is really more questionable, than may at first be thought, whether Bonaparte's dumb legislature which said nothing and did much, may not be preferable to one which talks much and does nothing. I served with General Washington in the legislature of Virginia before the revolution, and, during it, with Dr. Franklin in Congress. I never heard either of them speak ten minutes at a time, nor to any but the main point which was to decide the question. They laid their shoulders to the great points, knowing that the little ones would follow of themselves. If the present Congress errs in too much talking, how can it be otherwise in a body to which the people send 150. lawyers, whose trade it is to question everything, yield nothing, & talk by the hour? That 150. lawyers should do business together ought not to be expected."
So was John Adams.
You got it...
As if the schools putting out more lawyers who then become politicians have done anything help this country.
What exactly is the point of the article?
Well, you have to know the correct way to open your opponents sealed divorce records and use them to torpedo his candidacy. It's the liberal way!
So there ya have it. The whole enchilada.
Thread over.
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