Our main problem is we have LAWYERS creating laws.
Lawyers as officers of the court are a part of the judiciary and should be barred from holding legislative office. It creates a conflict of interest and weakens the separation of powers concept.
Their only part in the legislative process should be as consultants to DESIGN laws to meet the wishes of legislators.
Think about it. If Automobile Mechanics could design cars, what would they make? Vehicles which are safe, quick to maintain and long lasting without a need for major servicing?
Hardly. They would make cars which generate more business for themselves and that is exactly what legislating attorneys do.
Aside from that there are too damn many of them. I think its probably more profitable for a college to turn out attorneys than to turn out doctors, dentists, engineers and scientists - people who make life BETTER. Laboratories and equipment create a high overhead. All you need to turn out attorneys are law professors and libraries.
Weren’t some of the Founders lawyers? John Adams, Jefferson, and others?
“I think its probably more profitable for a college to turn out attorneys than to turn out doctors, dentists, engineers and scientists - people who make life BETTER. Laboratories and equipment create a high overhead. All you need to turn out attorneys are law professors and libraries.”
You are correct. It is also an important choke point for indoctrination. The surplus of law schools, lawyers and litigation is due to both financial and political imperatives.
Under the Original Thirteenth Amendment lawyers that swear an oath through their local Bar to the International Bar Association, headquartered in the sovereign City of London, and are granted the title Esquire automatically lose their citizenship and are thus ineligible to hold office. Some people may dismiss the entire original 13th amendment controversy as wild "conspiracy theory" or the objection to the title Esquire as nitpicking but I think it would be a good idea to enforce the amendment anyway and kick all lawyers out of office. They've run this country into a ditch and to think they'll do anything to fix it, or anyone who's been in office the past fifty years for that matter, is insane.