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What do you mean by very very very bad? Could you give an example.

Well, for starters, they might just start saying "see below" instead of "infra" and "see above" instead of "supra." Thus is the whole system unravelled.

I didn't say that even a majority should be non-lawyers. I meant there should be non-lawyers on the court. It's not unprecedented.

But in terms of overseeing the law, are you saying non-lawyers should be ineligible to run for Congress?

and there's the problem: if you have to have people that specialize in understanding the law, the law is too complex to be allowed to continue in that form. How can a 'normal' person abide by the law if they can't understand it?