What I object to is government of the lawyers, by the lawyers and for the lawyers.

Compare, for example, the U.S. and Japan. The U.S. has--what? 2 million lawyers? Very rapid rate of growth in enrollment in law schools . . . . true?

Now look at Japan. Hardly any lawyers, a few tens of thousands. Guess what:
1. Japanese live longer than Americans.
2. Japanese have far more leisure than Americans because they retire younger and have far fewer women in the work force.
3. Japanese have far less drug addiction, depression and other diseases rampant in U.S.
4. Japanese have a high and positive saving rate. U.S. has a negative saving rate.
5. GM and Ford are headed to bankruptcy; Honda and Toyota flourish.
6. Do we begin to see a pattern here? I am not blaming everything on lawyers, although after viewing the "Bleak House" series on PBS and rereading the novel by Dickens I am tempted to do so. As Socrates and Plato realized, the proliferation of sophists (i.e. lawyers) is as much a symptom as a cause of decay.

Note that never in their gloomiest nightmares did our Founding Fathers envision a rule by lawyers. They thought the lessons of history were so clear that we could not be stupid enough to fall into that trap.

Well, they were wrong.