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envision the attorney general having, he should be appointed
It may bepossible once we get to specific language to
develop an office of attorney general which we would
all agree ought to be an elected office.
Based on the majority and minority reports to
this Convention, I must conclude on the basis of the
evidence before us at the present time that the attorney
general should be an appointed office. The argument is
made by the proponents of the election that an elected
attorney general would be much more independent.
' In some cases this is perhaps true, but in other cases I
think it is quite not likely to be the case.
Independent of what? Independent of whom?
This is the essential argument.
The statement that a person is independent is
not something that hangs out in space by itself. It is
of what he is independent that becomes the matter of
greatest importance.
Attorneys general, as I understand the process
of politics in Maryland, do not run independently of other
officers of the State; thus they are not independent of a