Rebalencing Law & Attorney Power

I think it well past the time to rebalence the now too great authority of attorneys in the USA and the “Several States”. If you consider that lawyers (Reasonably) control the Courts, are most of the Members of the Congress and Legislatures and, too often, the heads of Administrative agencies you begin to see the impact of only one, self-interested and self-protecting (When did you last hear of an attorney having his/her license revoked rather than merely suspended?) sub-group of Americans upon the rest of us and the Common Good (A term and concept largely forgotten in this self-centered, “individual rights are everything” society).

If you add to this the fact that there are too many judges “making law from the bench”, often in direct opposition to the legislatively expressed will of the People AND the like mis-use of “administrative tricks” by lawyer-dominated/abused administrative agencies, you begin to “get the idea” that attorneys have seized control of this land---And, often not in a manner for, again that term-and-concept, “the common good”.

The horridly over-large fees paid to lawyers (Sometimes even when they claim to be doing free, pro bono, work) is a tax on all of us never approved by our elected representatives, but enforced by the “old boys club” of bar associations and the (Lawyer dominated) three branches of government.

Well then---What should be done to return the basic power of the government to the
non-attorney citizens?

My first and very radical proposal is that, after the year 2050 and by Federal and State Constitutional Amendment, that no attorney should be allowed to be a member of the Congress or the States' Legislatures AND that any attorney who wishes to sit in such a body must first give up his/her law license and post bond in the sum of $10,000,000 that s/he will never again practice law or work for a law firm.

In addition, every state should required that any attorney found guilty of certain crimes (Any felony, any assaultive crime and any theft or misuse of a client's property) shall have his/her law license permanently revoked and that such a law should make any para-legal work done by such a person a felony.

I will not “hold my breath” to see such laws or constitutional provisions in place OR even seriously considered. Well---I can hope.