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by the electorate. There are various opinions why this
occurred even on those-two occasions* But largely these
opinions are based on conjecture.
Another factor causing us to oppose this pro*
posal of the majority is the fact that the local court
in soae counties is too small to produce good men to sit
on noilnaiing coinmissions and for good men to accept
judgeships under consideration*
One county in the state has only approximately
six practicing attorneys, at least five. other counties
have fewer than 30 lawyers.
The nominating commission plan promises to work
quite effectively for appellate courts which have a
»uch larger geographic jurisdiction, but it seems quite
unrealistic to the minority to have this procedure in
the localized trial court area.
I have gone into some detail with respect to
the selection of judges at trial court level because this
issue is illustrative of our concern that democratic
principles should be applied to the Judicial Branch as
well as the Legislative and the Executive Branches.