Biggles Wrote:Not even close, at least at the local and state level that I'm aware of. Congress may be a higher percentage than local or state, but I doubt it's much over 50%. I guess you could find out, but it would probably take some digging.
Your right I was way off, here is what I could find. (see attachment).
Here are some great quotes about the subject as well. Not that I am attacking lawyers...well, not that I am attacking you Biggles.
"...having lawyers write the laws is like having doctors create diseases." -- Matt Beauchamp
"Letting lawyers be law makers is like letting munitions manufacturers start wars." -- Bert Rand
"The law is a system that protects everybody who can afford to hire a good lawyer." -- Mark Twain
"We have too many lawyers making laws. We need some un-lawyers un-making some laws." -- Carl Strang, ex-mayor, Winter Haven, FL
"Half the lawyers in Congress and the state legislatures create prohibitive laws and restrictive regulations, and the other half earns fees to help people get around these freedom-stifling laws and restraints." -- Ted Lang
"If there's a distinct group of Americans who harbor open contempt for constitutional principles and rule of law, it's lawyers, judges and members of Congress." -- Walter Williams in his column, "Attacks on the Rule of Law"
"The cultivation -- even celebration -- of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of today's culture of complaint." -- George Will
"Some of my best friends are lawyers." -- Neal Boortz, attorney at law
“A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.” -- Mario Puzo
It is, perhaps, a fact provocative of sour mirth that the Bill of Rights was
designed trustfully to prohibit forever two of the favorite crimes of all known
governments: the seizure of private property without adequate compensation
and the invasion of the citizen's liberty without justifiable cause.... It is a fact
provocative of mirth yet more sour that the execution of these prohibitions
was put into the hands of courts, which s to say, into the hands of lawyers,
which is to say, into the hands of men specifically educated to discover legal
excuses for dishonest, dishonorable and anti-social acts.
-- H. L. Mencken, Prejudices: A Selection, pp. 180-82