2 adjectives to describe lawmakers

Extract from the "Sunday Satirist," a journal of high-life, published in London, May 13th, 1848: Are not our hereditary lawmakers and the members of our old families the guardians of the honour of this realm?

Raising cotton, arguing the Government and bossing niggers have been about the extent of my occupation for the last forty years, so I reckon I'm not much of a practical lawmaker.

2 adjectives to describe  lawmakers