Our government has 3 branches, the executive, the judicial and the legislative. Separate but equal.?

Question

Lawyers are part of the judiciary. Why are they allowed to also dominate the legislature? The congress should be representatives of the common working man, not lawyers.

Answer 1

3 branches. Seperate, but not equal. Personally, I feel the judicial branch has too much power. They can declare any law unconstitutional. They seem to have supreme power over the other two branches.

Answer 2

Lawyers are not part of the judiciary. Lawyers are professionals who work with the law.

Judges are part of the judiciary.

Both the judiciary and the legislature have an active role in determining what the laws are, so it is reasonable for someone whose profession is to work with laws to work in either branch.

Answer 3

Lawyers have also been presidents. Bill Clinton was the last one. Disbarred now however. What does the former profession of an individual have to do with being elected to office other than none of us much care for lawyers and we elect them anyway. But the branches are separate but equal even if we only elected bakers or plumbers to government office.

Answer 4

Some of the Founding Fathers has some nasty things to say about organized Christian religions and if you report me in violation I will quote those people, like Paine and Jefferson and Franklin. There was an ATTEMPT to Add Jesus and it was defeated, thus they could not get 9 or 10 states out of the 13 to go along with adding Jesus to the constitution. They didn't think they could get the bill of rights through, which is why I was submitted seprately and two of the original12 rights never got approved! As Thomas Jefferson wrote in his Autobiography, in reference to the Virginia Act for Religious Freedom: "Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an amendment was proposed by inserting "Jesus Christ," so that it would read "A departure from the plan of Jesus Christ, the holy author of our religion;" the insertion was rejected by the great majority, in proof that they meant to comprehend, within the mantle of its protection, the Jew and the Gentile, the Christian and Mohammedan, the Hindoo and Infidel of every denomination." Thomas Jefferson interpreted the 1st Amendment in his famous letter to the Danbury Baptist Association in January 1, 1802: "I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between church and State." Thomas Paine, freethinker and author of several books, influenced more early Americans than any other writer. Although he held Deist beliefs, he wrote in his famous The Age of Reason: "I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my church. " "Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifiying to man, more repugnant to reason, and more contradictory to itself than this thing called Christianity. " Well, there are some of the quotes. These, then, are the people that Founded the US and championed the Constitution!

Answer 5

Lawyers are common working men, believe it or not, they aren't part of the judicial branch until they become judges. In the meantime, it's not so bad that our laws are written by people who have an understanding of the law.

Answer 6

They're all equally disturbing, living in a millionaires
world, all to themselves.
I don't know what has happened to our government,
but it has definitely lost it's way, especially when it
comes to using common sense & caring for humanity.