CONTENTS. PAGE First Plan: Appointment by the Governor and Retirement by Im- peachment, or Removal by the Governor upon the Address of Both Houses of the Legislature - the Massachusetts Plan, Second Plan: Selection and Retirement of Judges by Popular Vote, 10 Third Plan: Election of the Chief Justice for a Short Term of Years, the Appointment of Associate Judges by him, and Retirement Elections for Associate Judges at Stated Intervals, Fourth Plan: Election of the Chief Justice for a Short Term, the Appointment of Associate Judges by him without Any Provision PREFATORY NOTE. This pamphlet is taken from Bulletin IV, A, of the American Judicature Society's bulletins, and was prepared under the direction of the Board of Directors of that organization, consisting of the following: Harry Olson, Chairman, Chief Justice of the Municipal Court of Chicago; Woodbridge N. Ferris, Governor of Michigan; James Parker Hall, Dean of the University of Chicago Law School; Edward W. Hinton, Member of the Faculty of the University of Chicago Law School; Frederick Bruce Johnstone, of the Chicago Bar; Albert M. Kales, of the Chicago Bar and Professor of Law in the Harvard Law School; Frederick W. Lehmann, of the St. Louis Bar, former President of the American Bar Association, former Solicitor General of the United States; Nathan William MacChesney, of the Chicago Bar, President of the Illinois Commission on Uniform State Laws; Roscoe Pound, Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence and Dean of the Harvard Law School; John H. Wigmore, Dean of the Northwestern University School of Law; John B. Winslow, Chief Justice of the Wisconsin Supreme Court; and Herbert Harley, Secretary of the American Judicature Society. The parts here printed constitute the final revision of matter that was put in tentative form and sent out to several hundred of the associate members of the Judicature Society located in all parts of the United States. A large proportion of these associate members sent in extensive criticisms of the matter which had been received by them, and from those criticisms and suggestions the draft which is now submitted was revised. The Judicature Society also had direct investigations made by Mr. Harley, more particularly of the methods of the selection and retirement of judges in Wisconsin. Several members of the Board had a close and intimate knowledge of the methods of selecting and retiring judges in the city of Chicago and the State of Illinois. Those parts of the present bulletin which state conditions in Wisconsin and Chicago may be regarded as direct testimony by witnesses who are personally familiar with the conditions spoken of. It should be noted that this bulletin is a close analysis of facts from which all personal opinion and all bias in favor of any one scheme over another is carefully eliminated. The third plan set forth is to a slight extent discussed argumentatively. The reason for this is solely because it was being presented as a possible alternative to the method of electing judges for short terms which obtains generally in the Mississippi Valley. |