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election more often.
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JUDGE NILES: For what purpose?
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MR. MARTINEAU: You can't see into the future.
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JUDGE CLAPP: Then it should be six years.
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MRS. BOTHE: Actually, the noncompetitive
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election makes an assurance of a life- term, barring the
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disability provisions. My own feeling is you either
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have a life term, and that is the way it should be, but if
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you have an election it should have some meaning.
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JUDGE CLAPP: It has to some extent. If we
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had a present system of impeachment only, it would have,
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but with your proposal of removal of judges, the danger
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of not being very foresighted in your election and choice
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seems to me --
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MR. MAUTINEAU: What you are really proposing
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is, we do away with elections and have life terms?
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JUDGE CLAPP: No.
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JUDGE CARTER: What is wrong with leaving it
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where it is, one year and 15-year term, not disturbing
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that status, which is pretty well established, but simply
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going forward with the idea of having a judge run against
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