Qualification to be a Legislator

Who protects us from our "protectors"?

We rely on a series of professionals to create, evaluate and prescribe Medications which controls us from the inside.


Do we have any professionals to protect us from bad Laws, regulations and statutes that control us from the outside?

To create safe efficacious medicine Drug companies employ teams of specialists with hundreds of years of  cumulative experience in biology, genetics, chemistry and other fields related to our bodies.   They conduct hundreds of tests via simulation on a computer, animal testing and clinical trials on humans.  We have a process through the FDA that evaluates and certifies medications before they are allowed to be disseminated.  We have Doctors who evaluate our specific needs and prescribe the correct medications.  Doctors are certified and operate under the hippocratic oath of "First do no Harm".  

What code of ethics does Congress operate under?  What certification do they have? 

What qualifications are needed for those that create the laws that control our lives?

They (supposedly) represent the interest of their constituentcy.  Is that enough?

The make laws so shouldn't they be professionals in the field of law? 

Which professionals?
Lawyers, who present the law before a judge either in the role of prosecutor or defender? 
Judges who evaluate if laws are appropriate and how they apply?
Police who enforce the law?
Perhaps but that's Civil law. 

How about moral law?
What about Orthodox Rabbis?  They are experts in Talmudic Law and often fill the role of judges.
How about Priests and Imams?

And how about Tax law? 
Should they be accountants?

Laws create systems of processes.
Shouldn't they be business and software analyts?

Laws have major impact on our economy. 
Shouldn't they be economists?

How about all the other fields that the laws affect.  Agriculture, Medicine, Insurance, Military etc.

The one profession Legislators do not have to know - ask anyone - is Quality Assurance.  (LOL)

Thought experiments, public opinion polls, photo-ops and endless rhetoric are no substitues for simulation and field trials.  It is also essential to get feedback even after the law is propagated.