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Pretty much everyone in my friend group in college is majoring in some combination of: government, philosophy, economics, and history. About half of them plan on continuing to law school.
I personally am a double major in philosophy and government and I have plans for law school, as well. Philosophy, while it certainly isn't practical, teaches some great analytical and writing skills. Law school is all about reading complex texts and pulling arguments out from them, which is essentially what you do as a philosophy major.
I'll tell you this: after learning to understand Aristotle, reading Supreme Court opinions is a breeze!
Don't rule out the major just because it isn't practical: talk to some people in the department and decide if you think it interests you...
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
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