Should We Elect or Appoint State Government Executives? Some New Data Concerning State Attorneys General

The American Review of Public Administration

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1974, Pages 17-41

  Thompson, William N ^a  

^a WESTERN MICHIGAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 84965911148     PISSN: 02750740     EISSN: 15523357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/027507407400800102     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. See Book of the States, 1972-73.
2. See Lewis Morse, “Historical Outline and Bibliography of Attorneys General Reports and Opinions”, XXX Law Library Journal, (1937), pp. 39-245.
3. Woodrow Wilson, “The Study of Administration”, LVI Political Science Quarterly, (December, 1941) pp. 497-8. Reprint of 1887 article from V. 2 of the same Quarterly.
4. Woodrow Wilson, “Hide-and-Seek Politics”, CIXL The North American Review, (May, 1910), p. 599.
5. Terry Sanford, Storm Over the States, (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1967), p. 29.
6. Austin MacDonald, American State Government and Administration (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1960), pp. 157-158.
7. See National Municipal League, Model State Constitution (New York: National Municipal League, 6th ed., 1963); and Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations, State Legislative Program, (Washington, I). C.: A.C.I.K., August, 1969). provision 14-11-00, “Constitutional Provision for Short Ballot for State Officials.””
8. William Howard Taft, quoted in Byron R. Abernethy, Some Persisting Questions Concerning the Constitutional State Executive, (Lawrence, Kansas: Governmental Research Center, University of Kansas), Report 23, 1960.
9. Abernethy, Some Persisting Questions Concerning the Constitutional State Executive., pp. 42-43.
10. Richard Childs, quoted in The Office of Attorney General, a report of the
11. Abernethy, The Office of Attorney General., p. 43.
12. Quoted in Abernethy, The Office of Attorney General., p. 43.
13. Louis Lefkowitz, speech to New York State Constitutional Convention, June 1, 1967.
14. See Abernethy, speech to New York State Constitutional Convention, p. 41; and Statement of Attorney General William Scott to Illinois State Constitutional Convention, February 16, 1970.
15. Abernethy, speech to New York State Constitutional Convention, p. 42.
16. Commission on Law and Social Action, Digest and Analysis of State Attorney General Opinions Relating to Freedom of Religion and Separation of Church and State, (New York: American Jewish Congress, 1959).
17. See Joseph A. Schlesinger, Ambition and Politics: Political Careers in the United States (Chicago: Rand McNally Company, 1966); and Kenneth Prewitt, “Political Ambitions, Volunteerism, and Electoral Accountability”, LXIV American Political Science Review, (March, 1970), pp. 5-17; and Prewitt and William Nowlin, “Political Ambitions and the Behavior of Incumbent Politicians”, XXII Western Political Quarterly, (June, 1969), pp. 298-308.
18. Sameul Krislov, “Constituency Versus Constitutionalism: The Desegregation Issue and Tensions and Aspirations of Southern Attorneys General”, III Midwest Journal of Politics, (February, 1959), p. 81.
19. Mountrail County v. Farmer's State Bank, 53 N.D. 789, 208 N.W. 380 (1926).
20. Magness v. Pledger, Okl. 334 P. 2d 792 (1959).
21. State Ex Rel. Landis v. S. H. Kress and Co., 115 Fla. 189, 155 So. 823 (1925).
22. In re Lord, 255 Min. 370, 97 N.W. 2d 287 (1959).
23. Ex Parte Wall, 107 U. S. 265, at 274 (1882).
24. For instance see: Arien C. Christenson, “The State Attorney General”, MCMLXX Wisconsin Law Review, (January, 1970), pp. 298-340.
25. Richard M. Johnson, The Dynamics of Compliance (Evanston, III.: Northwestern University, 1967), p. 63.
26. Henry Abraham and Robert R. Benedetti, “State Attorney General: A Friend of the Court”, CXVII University of Pennsylvania Law Review, (April, 1969), p. 820.
27. National Association of Attorneys General, Digest of Opinions of State Attorneys General (Lexington, Ky.: Council of State Governments, Monthly).
28. Brown v. Board of Education, 347 U. S. 483 (1954).
29. Vanderbilt University Law School, I-XII Race Relations Law Reporter, (monthly, 1955-1968).
30. II Race Relations Law Reporter, (1956), p. 266.