More power led to greater dominance in all elective offices. As its power increased, so did the corruption of many of its members and their activities. The members of the legal profession are charged with guarding our Constitution. None know it better. That is why none other could have succeeded in corrupting it so completely.
Lawyers ostensibly run for elective office as 'representatives of the people'.
However whether consciously or not, they run first, last and always, for themselves and their own 'same hands' control group. Such activity by individual lawyers is unconstitutional. It may even be an act of treason. However those charged by the nation to identify and remedy the situation, are themselves the cause of it. They are therefore far more likely to fight to preserve, than to correct it.