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Article: 94% OF LAWYERS THINK CONSTITUTION STILL VIABLE, SAYS POLL
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- THE JOURNAL RECORD
- Article date:
- September 19, 1987
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Ninety-four percent of U.S. lawyers think the U.S. Constitution is
aging well and is not out-of-date even after two centuries of
service, according to a poll published in the September issue of ABA
Journal.
Although 68 percent of the lawyers polled think the Electoral
College should be eliminated in favor of direct election of the
president, most of the profession would not support major changes in
the Constitution.
Poll results also indicate that 78 percent of the nation's
lawyers oppose a constitutional convention.
The legal profession gave strong support to the Bill of Rights
as well, with support for the Fifth Amendment privilege against
self-incrimination and the Sixth ...