In case you missed this in your summer reading, the historian, Neil Ferguson, writes in his new book, "The Great Degeneration: How Institutions Decay and Economies Die," that lawyers are responsible for the declining respect for America's once proud "benchmark to the world": The Rule of Law.
As Ferguson tells it, too many lawyers in Congress (37 percent in the Senate, 24 percent in the House) have led to the "rule of lawyers," which in Ferguson's mind is harmful to the public. He does not explain why. Perhaps, he thinks this point too obvious to require explanation.
