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Let's kill all the lawyers
In English literature, "Let's kill all the lawyers" is a phrase from a line of dialogue spoken by a henchman in the history play Henry VI, Part 2 (1591), by William Shakespeare. Although the truncated form is the usual quotation, the full line of dialogue is: "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers", spoken in conversation between the rebel leader Jack Cade and his henchman, Dick the Butcher, in scene 2 of Act IV (4.2.76–77).
Popular usage of the phrase "Let's kill all the lawyers" usually is negative: as criticism of how lawyers use the law to maintain the privileges and perquisites of the rich and of the ruling class; as criticism of the bureaucratic nature of legal process and legal procedure; as criticism of the easy corruption and perversion of the rule of law; occasionally as back-hand praise of how lawyers confront the tribalism, partisanship and herd mentality to thwart mob violence in the public sphere of society; and acknowledges that eliminating lawyers as the guardians of the rule of law removes a major impediment to the path to more power, and a step in the direction of a totalitarian form of government.
In the second scene of Act IV of Henry VI, Part 2 (1591), the playwright Shakespeare makes light of royal politics when Dick the Butcher suggests that killing every lawyer of the realm is one way by which the pretenders to the English throne might improve England. Like the other henchmen to Cade's rebellion, Dick the Butcher is a man of evil character, hence his expeditiously lethal solution to a societal problem usually resolved by lengthy legal process.
JACK CADE. Valiant I am.
SMITH [aside]. A must needs; for beggary is valiant.
JACK CADE. I am able to endure much.
DICK THE BUTCHER [aside]. No question of that; for I have seen him whipp'd three market-days together.
JACK CADE. I fear neither sword nor fire.
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Let's kill all the lawyers
In English literature, "Let's kill all the lawyers" is a phrase from a line of dialogue spoken by a henchman in the history play Henry VI, Part 2 (1591), by William Shakespeare. Although the truncated form is the usual quotation, the full line of dialogue is: "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers", spoken in conversation between the rebel leader Jack Cade and his henchman, Dick the Butcher, in scene 2 of Act IV (4.2.76–77).
Popular usage of the phrase "Let's kill all the lawyers" usually is negative: as criticism of how lawyers use the law to maintain the privileges and perquisites of the rich and of the ruling class; as criticism of the bureaucratic nature of legal process and legal procedure; as criticism of the easy corruption and perversion of the rule of law; occasionally as back-hand praise of how lawyers confront the tribalism, partisanship and herd mentality to thwart mob violence in the public sphere of society; and acknowledges that eliminating lawyers as the guardians of the rule of law removes a major impediment to the path to more power, and a step in the direction of a totalitarian form of government.
In the second scene of Act IV of Henry VI, Part 2 (1591), the playwright Shakespeare makes light of royal politics when Dick the Butcher suggests that killing every lawyer of the realm is one way by which the pretenders to the English throne might improve England. Like the other henchmen to Cade's rebellion, Dick the Butcher is a man of evil character, hence his expeditiously lethal solution to a societal problem usually resolved by lengthy legal process.
JACK CADE. Valiant I am.
SMITH [aside]. A must needs; for beggary is valiant.
JACK CADE. I am able to endure much.
DICK THE BUTCHER [aside]. No question of that; for I have seen him whipp'd three market-days together.
JACK CADE. I fear neither sword nor fire.
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