Representative Democratic Model- Selectable Offices Part Eight (State Attorney General's Office)

Representative Democratic Model- Selectable Offices Part Eight (State Attorney General's Office)

The Governor should select six candidates for the position of State Chief Prosecutor and forwards this list to the Vice-Governor. The Vice-Governor nominates one of these candidates and forwards the name of the nominee to the State House of Delegates/Assemblypeople (lower legislative house) for majority-vote confirmation. If confirmation fails, the entire process re-starts.

The State Chief Prosecutor is subject to one reconfirmation, by a 55% vote approval in the lower legislative house, after serving six years. If both renomination and reconfirmation are not achieved, then the entire process starts over again.

Cliff Notes Version:

Out of the state lower legislative house, governor, and vice-governor, the vice-governor is most insulated from the People since they should be chosen by electors on a Land-Based Democratic Model. That is why they should nominate the candidate for State Chief Prosecutor.

The state chief prosecutor is the head of the prosecutorial law enforcement department which is supposed to be more shielded from the People than the public safety and investigative law enforcement. That is why the vice-governor has to perform the most important role in this choosing of this officeholder. That is why the vice-governor should do the nomination.

Because the state legislature and the governor are more directly connected to and with the People than the vice-governor, they both should have lesser roles in the eventual choosing of the state chief prosecutor.