Watch the top videos of the week here<\/a><\/div>\nLawyers get a lot of flack. But the main point is true: places like Haiti and Somalia are not overlawyered and they are not place I\u2019d like to live. I like places where the iron law is not \u201cThe strong do as they please and the weak suffer what they must.\u201d As lawyer who was a saint says in A Man for All Seasons: \u201cThis country is planted thick with laws\u2013man\u2019s laws, not God\u2019s. And if you cut them down, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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