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Attributions Its been said. . . This problem has been coming for a very long time. I think for most of [the past] century, the idea of the Constitution as a document that should be interpreted formally and without regard to the judge's own values has been under attack. Northwestern Univ. law professor John O. McGinnis on a survey done for the ABA Journal eReport showing more than half of Americans are angry and disappointed with the nation's judiciary Our objective is not to get into the politics of judicial selection, but rather to fill what appears to be a gap in general public understanding of the fundamental role of a judge. Cleveland lawyer Robert H. Rawson Jr., named to chair an ABA commission on civic education after a survey finding that 56 percent of respondents agreed court opinions should reflect voters' values The states should no longer restrict licenses to practice law to those who possess a diploma from an ABA-accredited law school. The bar exam, too, should be eliminated as a barrier. Although we have grown accustomed to thinking that accreditation and the bar exam are inevitable, they are not. They are a relatively recent experiment that has failed. George B. Shepherd, law professor at Emory University School of Law in Atlanta, proposing in Legal Times that law school attendance should be optional |