. Indiana and Indianans : a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood . and meant it when theysaid so. The courts had not yet perpetrated the absurdity of applyingthe doctrine that the expression of one made is the exclusion of an-other, to a public, natural and indefeasible right. No such construction 312 INDIANA AND INDIANANS was ever given to this section by anyone in authority, and if it had beenthe meaning of the section, our present constitution would be a nullity,for it was not adopted in that way. The nearest approach to a sane objection to the constitu
. Indiana and Indianans : a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood . and meant it when theysaid so. The courts had not yet perpetrated the absurdity of applyingthe doctrine that the expression of one made is the exclusion of an-other, to a public, natural and indefeasible right. No such construction 312 INDIANA AND INDIANANS was ever given to this section by anyone in authority, and if it had beenthe meaning of the section, our present constitution would be a nullity,for it was not adopted in that way. The nearest approach to a sane objection to the constitution at thetime was a criticism of limiting the terms of judges to seven years, thewriter holding that they should serve during good behavior. This wassound, but the mode of choosing judges was intinitely preferable to ourpresent system—the Supreme judges being appointed by the Governor,with the consent of the senate; and the Circuit judges being elected by thelegislature. Comment has often be^n made on the small number ofofficials made eeetive by the people, in this constitution. But this State Offices, .\t Corydon which is what is now commonly called the short ballot, was universalin the United States at that time, and its evils had not yet party organization came into use, this system ottered the easiest andmost effective basis for the construction of a political machine thatcould be devised, and it was on that account that it was generally aban-doned about the middle of the last century. It is difficult to say which isthe more absurd, the claim of advocates of the short ballot that theirplan is new, or their claim that it would prevent machine domination. InIndiana the only state officers elected by the people were the governor,lieutenant-governor, and the legislators. All the others were appointedor elected by them, and chiefly by the legislature. This was in accordwith the fundamental American idea that the legislators are the repre- INDIANA AND IN
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