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Union contracts have much more in them than just employment issues. Again, delegation is the key here. So the parameter for being elected is that you're not merely any old lawyer, but a constitutional lawyer! That will certainly bring frowns to all the other types of attorneys crowding our legislatures.
Very good. Clinton's understanding of corporations put her on the cover of Fortune magazine. That is exactly what many people are afraid of. Actually, it looks to me like she is better qualified to be the General Counsel of Citigroup than President of the United States.
So you don't think non-lawyes and regular people understand the constitution? You think only constitutional lawyers understand the constitution? So why is the Supreme Court full of constitutional lawyers who it seems do NOT understand the constitution? The truth is there are different philosophise of the constitution, which all 'lawyers' do not agree on. It is politics, actually.
I think you have elitist and anti-democratic prejudices. From a "Democrat." That is why I trust your party so much. Experts are not ultimately going to change this system - only the people are going to do it.
