The Ethics of Representing Elected Representatives

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jan 1998 United States Publisher:JSTORJournal:Law and Contemporary Problems, volume 61, page 31 (issn: 0023-9186,

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Authors: Clark, Kathleen;

doi: 10.2307/1192333

The Ethics of Representing Elected Representatives

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Capitol Hill used to be referred to as "the last plantation."1 For the purposes of this symposium, however, I believe that it is more useful to think of Capitol Hill not in terms of the antebellum South but rather in terms of medieval Europe. Congress consists of a series of fiefdoms. To understand any particular lawyer's role in Congress, it is important to know which fiefdom the lawyer is part of, and who is its head.2 This essay is an attempt to sketch out in a preliminary way the work of several different types of legislative lawyers.3 It suggests that the role of lawyers

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Keywords

Government attorneys, 340, 330, Powers and duties, Legal ethics, Human resource management, Government agencies, Law, Attorneys, Legislators

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