and this is the problem more than any other! it's by design, as most who have gone into political office over the last half century have served at some point or another as an attorney
if your government is made up of lawyers, the laws will soon be written only in legalese so that they can enrich themselves and their brothers and sisters by ensuring if you don't want to go to jail for violating some bullshit directive, you need to hire a team of lawyers to translate the word salad for you into english.
There's something deeply immoral about laws that govern average men written in a manner which is incomprehensible to the governed. Legalese is not English. If it were, it wouldn't require a specialized dictionary. We may as well be ruled by laws written in latin or chinese.
and this is the problem more than any other! it's by design, as most who have gone into political office over the last half century have served at some point or another as an attorney
if your government is made up of lawyers, the laws will soon be written only in legalese so that they can enrich themselves and their brothers and sisters by ensuring if you don't want to go to jail for violating some bullshit directive, you need to hire a team of lawyers to translate the word salad for you into english.
complete bullshit
There's something deeply immoral about laws that govern average men written in a manner which is incomprehensible to the governed. Legalese is not English. If it were, it wouldn't require a specialized dictionary. We may as well be ruled by laws written in latin or chinese.