Lawyers

[41mag]

Axiom:  Lawyers are always bad. 

Debate?

Lysander Spooner.

[KBCraig]

Axiom:  Lawyers are always bad. 

Debate?

Lysander Spooner.

I'm surprised there were licensing requirements that early, just a generation or two after anyone could "read law" and offer their services. But according to the wiki entry:

His activism began with his career as a lawyer, which itself violated Massachusetts law. Spooner had studied law under the prominent lawyers and politicians John Davis and Charles Allen, but he had never attended college. According to the laws of the state, college graduates were required to study with an attorney for three years, while non-graduates were required to do so for five years.

With the encouragement of his legal mentors, Spooner set up his practice in Worcester after only three years, openly defying the courts. He saw the three-year privilege for college graduates as a state-sponsored discrimination against the poor and also providing a monopoly income to those who met the requirements. He argued that such discrimination was "so monstrous a principle as that the rich ought to be protected by law from the competition of the poor." In 1836, the legislature abolished the restriction. He opposed all licensing requirements for lawyers, doctors or anyone else that was prevented from being employed by such requirements. To prevent a person from doing business with a person without a professional license he saw as a violation of the natural right to contract.

After a disappointing legal career - his radical writing seems to have kept away potential clients - and a failed career in real estate speculation in Ohio, Spooner returned to his father's farm in 1840.

[Keyser Soce]

What do you call 100 lawyers drowned in the ocean?

A good start! 

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