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ronp on June 29, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: "The legal profession is undergoing a massive stru...

I'm sorry to disagree with you, but a huge problem in state legislatures is that the congressmembers are NOT lawyers and write legislation that is really costly to sort out when it gets litigated.

jacques_chester on June 30, 2011 [–]

As a rule, legislators don't actually write the laws. Professional draftsmen are usually employed for this purpose.

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