Corrupt System

Date: Wednesday, November 7, 2007
Time: 3:30 PM
Place: Testing Center

For my Business Law class, we had to respond to the following: A letter to The Wall Street Journal stated: The problems with our legal system go much deeper than irresponsible plaintiffs, amoral lawyers, and inept juries. The trouble is, our system of checks and balances has been corrupted; 100 percent of the executive, 100 percent of the judicial, and 43 percent of the legislative branches have been taken over by one group - lawyers. The Constitution charges Congress to ordain and establish the courts. It is no wonder it has created a system that maximized the income of its own kind. The system is rigged to drag out cases that are billed by the hour, or to find moochers and looters willing to bring huge civil suits against productive citizens and corporations in front of dumbed-down juries.
My response is:
According to Dr. Charles A. Beard, an historian, our system of checks and balances has been corrupted from the get go.After reading his works, I think that our law system should be updated and a bit more concrete. Dr. Beard interestingly notes that the majority of the Framers of the Constitution were lawyers and that the Constition is "an economic document drawn w/ superb skill by men whose property interests were immediatley at stake...(They had to) determine the property relations between members of society; thus the dominant classes had to either control the organs of government or to enact rules that were consistent with their larger efforts to continue their own economic affairs."Just as corrupt lawyers take advantage of the legal system today, Framers of the Constitution took advantages where ever they could.That's just how it is- we were founded on protecting personal liberties, and even more on being capitalistic/ taking advantage of as much as I can.Apples grow from apple seeds.