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We want to see an independent but responsible
Judiciary and we are especially anxious that judges at
the trial court level fully recognize that they are
responsible to the people and have to answer to them at
least one time in 16 years.
Keeping in mind the fact that our concept of
reiponiile representative government calls for reason-
able and logical checks of authority, we hope you will
cast an especially critical eye on the recommendations in
the majority report with respect to the selection of
nonjudicial officers of the court; I refer specifically
to Section 5.11, which deals with appointment by the
court of the commissioners after first creating the
Office of Coamissioner, and Section 5.30 wherein it is
provided in the majority report that the court will ap-
point the clerics on the District Court level.
Where control over this matter traditionally
has been in the hands of the legislature which,as the
representative body of the people, may appropriately
use its authority as a check on potentially excessive
judicial independence, the majority wishes to further |
