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Just to stick up for my kind a little (lawyers that is), Thomas Jefferson was a 21 year old lawyer when he drafted the Declaration of Independence; good ol' Hon
by will_brown 13y ago
Just to stick up for my kind a little (lawyers that is), Thomas Jefferson was a 21 year old lawyer when he drafted the Declaration of Independence; good ol' Honest Abe was a lawyer and pushed for the Emancipation Proclamation; and one of my personal favorites is Gandhi.
And to stick up for the profession not just a few individuals, when Clinton lied under oath, the only real action taken against him was by his State Bar who immediately disbarred him despite him being President and unlikely to ever practice again.
Edit: Jefferson was 33 when he drafted the Declaration of Independence (credit - rqwerwqerwr)
- D9u 13y agoTouche will_brown. Point taken.
- rqwerwqerwr 13y agoIt could also be argued that they did good things in spite of being lawyers. Looked up the thing about Thomas Jefferson drafting the Declaration of Independence at 21 and this is what I found in wikipedia [1]: Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 (April 2, 1743 O.S.) – July 4, 1826) was an American Founding Father, the principal author of the Declaration of Independence (1776) Seems like he was in his thirties. Care to correct yourself? [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson
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