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way of knowing what to expect from an appointed attorney
general.
Would this appointed officer in dealing with
matters of the importance of education, feel constrained
to consult with the Governor on purely legal questions?
Might not an appointed attorney general be bound by very
human and real considerations to have his views coincide
with those of the governor who appointed him and at whose
pleasure he is serving? Would not these very real dangers
be magnified if Maryland had a governor who was not him-
self a lawyer, who did not understand the labryinths of
the law and who might, in all good conscience, insist on
courses of action contrary to the law which he did not
understand?
We have, as has been noted previously, an
Attorney General responsible to the electorate of Mary-
land. We have a system wherein the attorney general has
served as a lawyer not only for the governor, but for every
department and agency of the State government, serving
all with equal vigor and independence.
I see no reason to depart from a well establishe