"people may act as they think proper in their elections, and they still will do so. lawyers and merchants are generally their choice...lawyers have a keenness and a fondness for disputation. wrangling is their business. but long practice in supporting any cause that offers has obliterated regard to right and wrong. the question only is, which is my side?...o candor and integrity ...where are ye to be found? seldom in professional men." wilian maclay's journal of the first congress. 5 june 1789__________________________of the five hundred and thirty-five voting members of the current congress one hundred and seventy-three are lawyers...that's just under a third...over half are millionaires ( one presumes this excludes campaign funds ) this explains much and maclay provides a solid line of evidence that wealth and law were bedfellows from the start..."i fear we shall follow on nor cease until we have reached ...all the frivolities, fopperies, and expense practiced in european governments. i grieve to think that many individuals among us are aiming at these objects with unceasing diligence." hamilton's vision lives on.
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