Who will Be Our Next Oligarch?
A Government of, by, and for Judges:
“It is a maxim among these lawyers that whatever has been done before, may legally be done again: and therefore they take special care to record all the decisions formerly made against common justice, and the general reason of mankind. These, under the name of precedents, they produce as authorities to justify the most iniquitous opinions; and the judges never fail of directing accordingly.”
— Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels
Written in 1726, the above satirical lines again demonstrate how the loathing of lawyers is nothing new. Nor is rule by oligarchy or the like, as autocracy is generally man’s lot. But it perhaps took the 20th-century United States to combine the lawyer class with oligarchy and create something resembling a “lawyerocracy.”
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