A typical demagogue with delusions of grandeur intending to sweep away all lawful authority and make himself the despotic ruler. Cade complains that he once signed a legal document that he had to honor. After that the mob brings in a man and forces him to confess that he knows how to write his name. When the Mob learns that the man can write, they take hen out to hang him. Lawyers served in Shakespeare's time and serve today as a bulwark against anarchy and arbitrary or mob rule.
Lawyers assure that the law is upheld.
The law is our only guarantee against tyranny. Including the occasional tyranny of the majority in a democracy. Each individual retains certain fundamental freedoms that the majority may not reduce or eliminate. By people insisting on them, with the help of lawyers. I cannot resist condemning here one of the greatest of the many outrages now being committed by the Congress of the United States -that other congress, not our wonderful American Jewish Congress.