Hostility to lawyers is not a recent phenomenon. It goes back at least to the Middle Ages and was widespread in the seventeenth-century America. In 1641, Massachusetts Bay actually adopted a law making it illegal to earn money by representing a person in court; the law stayed on the books for seven years. In Virginia legislators went even further. In 1658 they passed a law expelling all attorneys from the colony. Not until 1680 was the law repealed and the lawyers allowed to return.
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