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From: tonti@ptsfc.UUCP (Guy Tonti)
Newsgroups: net.taxes
Subject: Re: Lawyers' comments
Message-ID: <546@ptsfc.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 14-Mar-86 16:10:30 EST
Article-I.D.: ptsfc.546
Posted: Fri Mar 14 16:10:30 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 15-Mar-86 22:06:54 EST
References: <1630@decwrl.DEC.COM>
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Summary: Lawyers run the government

In article <1630@decwrl.DEC.COM>, alpert@chovax.DEC writes:
.....
what I consider to be a very well written article.  Many good, 
thought provoking subjects are brought up, which I am sure will
give good fodder to this newsgroup for quite a while.

I realize that the emphasis of the article was directed towards
the IRS, but I would like to address just one small part of the 
article (not directly dealing with the IRS), which is a belief 
I have had for years, and have not had refuted by anyone
I have discussed it with.  

In the article it states:

> .......
> "The system is becoming more untenable and terroristic" as time goes
> on, he stated. Judges frequently have no concept of the world outside
> the system.  They typically go through law school, go to work 
> for a judge, become a prosecutor, and become judges themselves -- these
> individuals have "never worked outside of the State."
>
I propose that:

When the U.S. Constitution was written, it was written and approved by a
broad mix of people (though generally "upper class", they were farmers,
merchants, professional soldiers, etc.).  In the Constitution, they put in
a rather elaborate (for the time) set of checks and balances between the
judicial, the legislative and the executive branches.  This held up very
well until the mid-20th century.

However, in the last 50 or so years, this balance has been thrown out of
kilter by the rise in the number of "law school educated" personnel (LSEP)
in all 3 branches of the government.  It is obvious that the power of the
judiciary has increased (very eloquently stated in the referred to article).
But also, in the executive branch the rise in the number of commissions and 
agencies has increased this branches power over "the people," and it is made 
up primarily of LSEP.  And finally, the majority of elected congressmen and 
senators (not to mention their staffs) are also LSEP.

Thus, as stated above, "...these individuals have "never worked outside 
of the State.""  Or better stated for my purposes, "these individuals have
"never worked (or received any education), outside of the judicial system."

This has meant that areas of the government can go unchecked, as each
branch of the government "marches to the same drummer."

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Well, the consequences of the above could make for quite a book, which is
not what the net was designed for.  I apologize if this doesn't properly
fit this category of net.taxes, but I figured if I put it in net.legal it 
would probably be removed somehow by an LSEP (just kidding), or at least
flamed to death.

Thanks for reading.