Yeah - you shouldn't need a requirement to pass law and the founding fathers wanted it that way as well with laws being written so that even the most common man could understand them.
But we don't write laws on one page of paper now (let alone a constitution) they take up tens of thousands of pages with contradictory gotchas and hidden agendas.
The point of passing the bar is similarly the same point to being a tax preparer (albeit more complex) - that you show competency and understanding of parsing laws as written and court procedures.
Otherwise you have laymen thinking they can practice law because they saw a few episodes of CSI! Or not even high school educated people representing themselves in a murder case and putting forth the argument that dey be innocent because dey be innocent and she was a whore anyway and her shit was all fucked up! blah blah blah!
It's a chicken and egg problem.
Yeah - you shouldn't need a requirement to pass law and the founding fathers wanted it that way as well with laws being written so that even the most common man could understand them.
But we don't write laws on one page of paper now (let alone a constitution) they take up tens of thousands of pages with contradictory gotchas and hidden agendas.
The point of passing the bar is similarly the same point to being a tax preparer (albeit more complex) - that you show competency and understanding of parsing laws as written and court procedures.
Otherwise you have laymen thinking they can practice law because they saw a few episodes of CSI! Or not even high school educated people representing themselves in a murder case and putting forth the argument that dey be innocent because dey be innocent and she was a whore anyway and her shit was all fucked up! blah blah blah!