ABSTRACT
The control of the judges by the democracy became a topic of widespread and bitter controversy in the course of which many changes were proposed. The argument for the recall rested in part upon the failure of the earlier provision for removal of judges by the impeachment process or on joint address of the Legislature. That procedure had practically ceased to function, and the long-term judge was not amenable to public control by any governmental process. President Taft vetoed the act admitting Arizona to the Union in 1911, on the ground that the constitution of the state contained a provision for the recall of judges. In the campaign of 1912 this was one of the leading issues under discussion. The American Bar Association in 1911 adopted a resolution condemning the recall of judges and of judicial decisions, and appointed a committee to carry on a campaign against it.
