Enriching judicial independence: seeking to improve the retention vote phase of an appointive selection system.(Rethinking Judicial Selection: A Critical Appraisal of Appointive Selection for State Court Judges)

From: Fordham Urban Law Journal | Date: January 1, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

[I]ndependence of the judges is ... requisite to guard the Constitution and the rights of individuals from the effects of those ill humors, which the arts of designing men, or the influence of particular conjunctures, sometimes disseminate among the people themselves, and which, though they speedily give place to better information, and more deliberate reflection, have a tendency, in the meantime, to occasion dangerous innovations in the government, and serious oppressions of the minor party in the community. (1)

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