Reconstruct the following as a standard-form syllogism; then, determine whether it is valid using either a Venn diagram or the rules of the syllogism.All legislatures are more influenced by the legal profession than by any other, but it is legislatures that make the rules by which the legal profession operates. So, the result is that the bodies that make the rules for the lawyers' profession are bodies most influenced by that very profession.
What will be an ideal response?
All legislatures are bodies influenced most...
All bodies that make rules... are legislatures.
So, all bodies that make rules... are bodies influenced most...
Valid.
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