> The current system is based on a couple of millennia of historical
> development and there has been a great deal of attention paid over
> those hundreds of years to specifics and circumstances of individual
> cases. It won't be easy to create a system as good to replace
> it. The main trouble with our current system is that we ask it to
> take care of social welfare problems it should not be dealing with.
The current system doesn't work, irregardless of its historical "development." It's a system that works for the ruling class, not people with everyday problems.
Every experience I've ever had with the court system has been a negative one.
Chuck