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Show to it that "opinionated law professors do not send forth hundreds of young lawyers carrying the hidden genes of legal deformity." In the coming elections let us scrutinize all lawyers with care and make sure they will represent the people who elect them and uphold the constitution under which they hold office. Lawyers for Legislators Msrle Riche No doubt the attorney general's office of our state gets its share of criticism and praise. It is often in the news .of late as more and more o p i nions are asked re gard ing the constitution consti-tution ality of 1 a w s passed bv ! C: fc.i i i iiJV . Nil twtivr md the legislators. Recently it was pointed out by the National Association of - Attorneys General that lawyers have always been the real, ultimate custodians of our form of government. Their elected leader said: "The United States, like ancient Judah, seems to be passing into the period of the judges." With many lawyers in the legislative halls and then a review of their law-making by the attorney general's office it would seem that we are well-protected. There needs to be a sharp distinction, however, between constitutional con-stitutional law and party politics. Also lawyers, if they are to be elected, should know that they are to represent their constituents as a whole and not their clients. One of the complaints about the legal profession now occupying Capitol Hill seats is that they are too intent on promoting the welfare of those from whom they get private retainers. As this country more and more passes under the virtual control of lawyers as a distinct group we need to have elected those who would rather be right than rich and who would rather be fair than be famous. The legal progress ion has quite a distance to go to overcome public opinion which ranks them on the bottom of the list in contributions to society, which ranks them fourth in professions in 'prestige in the public's mind. The disparity between these two poles can be, overcome if those who are in the halls of state and national congresses con-gresses seek to uphold principle rather than win a point and cease to discredit reason to get a rationalized law or opinion. Law schools, too, need to be subject to some kind of supervision by responsible overseers who see |