sure, why not . . . let's look at who has what degree In Congress, Even Lawmakers’ Degrees Are a Partisan Issue - The Chronicle of Higher Education
After you click on the link, make sure you click on all three categories: 1. Institution type (Ive league, private, public) 2. Degree level (graduate, bachelors, no degree) 3. Degree type (doctorate, masters, bachelors, associates, no degree) Number three is fascinating. There are so many doctoral holders in elected government. It's remarkable!
They're including law degrees. I think "running for public office" is in the ABA core curriculum of law schools these days.
This has meaning if you accept that being highly schooled is being highly educated. Proposing legislation makes you an effective legislator? Why is this assumed?
As I've said before, some guys I worked with never graduated high school, and they were among the best cops I ever met. Conversely, I've had a Harvard Ph.D. professor who I wouldn't trust with sharp scissors.
“I would rather be governed by the first two thousand people in the Boston telephone directory than by the two thousand people on the faculty of Harvard University.” ― William F. Buckley Jr.
Wikipedia thinks that current Supreme Court Justices Anthony Kennedy, Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Steven Breyer earned LLBs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachelor_of_Laws When American law schools phased out the LLB, many of them gave their alumni the opportunity to trade in their LLB diplomas in exchange for JD diplomas. I don't know if any of these three Supreme Court justices took advantage of that. (I believe that some of the crustier legal old-timers of the time proudly and pointedly kept their LLBs.)
Hmmm...maybe the next wave of populism will result in a reversal on the emphasis on degrees for elected officials. It would be interesting to see what would happen with some high school and tech school grads in congress.