[Leisler]

bump!

Lawyers have become the priest class of our age. They sell indulgences so one may do what one historically, and has every right to do freely. To be a member of the bar today is to have a low number party card in the Nazis or the Communist International.

[victim soul]

As any pro-lifer already knows:

"Our great cornerstone of democracy, the rule of law, has become a source of power and influence, not liberty and justice. I resent the insidious manipulations of those entrusted with such authority and, even more, I despise our deliberate ignorance and passive acceptance of those shackles on the American spirit."

[Phaedrus]

Those who deal with the law at first hand -- legislators, judges, lawyers and regulators -- occupy positions at the pinnacle of power in a constitutional republic. So long as they act in good faith, morally, all benefit, but when the moral constraints erode, as they have since the mid-20th Century, moral cost becomes economic cost in direct proportion to the rise in uncertainty. Those costs are massive. I don't believe that this is at all well-understood. Unbridled democracy, mob rule, is a catalyst to this decay.

Your thoughts?

[n2002duke]

There's a big difference between rule of law and rule of lawyers. In striving for the former, we've ended up with the latter.

[bert]

The USA no longer has a Rule of Law....it has a tyranny of lawyers.

The tyrants make the law whatever they want it to be to obtain the highest $$$$ return and the Republic be dammned.

[wcbtinman]

As with any parasite/varmit situation, we just need an approprite bounty on lawyers for about a year.

[dljordan]

We've got plenty of "LAW" but very little justice.

[SevenDaysInMay]

We face the Law of Rule, tyranny of Blackrobes usurping all ultimate powers through their "judicial reviews" of political agenda litigation.

When we are told what our Constitution and laws mean, under penalty of law, rather than what they clearly say through the written word, we have rulers.

The in-your-face corruption by the Clintonazis is a large step toward fascism - self-serving socialists controlling the major factors of production through graft's Play for Pay, under threat of the police powers of the State.

America has surrendered the doctrine of separation of powers. Our rulers have fatally injured our Republic by demanding interpretations of a "living" Constitution which ignores our Bill of Rights, to the benefit of the expanding powers of government...a government of the government, by the government, and for the government...

We have but a fading illusion of a Rule of Law.

[Bush2000]

What's an "ornerstone"?

[r9etb]

The guy's dodging the obvious point: laws are for honest people. The Rule of Law is meaningful only when the people are already predisposed to follow the laws.

The proliferation of laws exists because of the tendency of people to try to find ways around the letter of the law. If you can't trust people to follow the spirit of the law, the motivation is to try to hem them in with the letter of the law.

In dicussions like this, it's always good to remember what John Adams said: "We have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion . ... Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."