Point taken. On something related that you brought up, separation of powers is already violated by having a horde of lawyers in our legislatures and executive offices. It will all come out in the default and collapse caused by them and other kinds of crooks, though.
Fairly true — I don't think adding a no lawyer shall be appointed to the [insert branch here]
-clause would be good though.
There is some evidence that the 13th Amendment we have now overwrote
another amendment, one which would have addressed this via prohibition on titles of nobility
. Even without this there are irregularities around the 13th/14th which call into question their validity: Non-republican [Reconstruction] governments of the southern States imposed by military force and fiat, cannot ratify anything. Either the Fourteenth is legal and the anti-slavery amendment is not, or the anti-slavery amendment is legal and the Fourteenth is not.
It will all come out in the default and collapse caused by them and other kinds of crooks, though.
True; I'd rather eliminate their ability to harm the rest of us though.