judge in our highest courts holds for a longer term than other judges, and this fact fortifies him in a determination that property interests shall be dealt with fairly. All this has been accomplished without the electorate at large fully perceiving what has happened. The voter is still submissive to the apparently fair proposition that only lawyers of excellent standing and ability should be elected to the highest court of the state. Little does he understand that success in selecting such men has established the rudiments of a second chamber which is designed to protect property. The present arrangement, however, is on the verge of some reorganization. It is plain that the judicial veto is too drastic. It may stop all desired legislation along a given line till the constitution is changed. The difficulties of securing the desired amendment may not be surmounted for many years. Hence has arisen the plan for “steam-rollering” the judicial veto by a constitutional provision that whenever an act of the legislature has been passed at two different sessions and sustained by the electorate upon a referendum, it shall be deemed not to infringe the “life, liberty, and property” clause of the state constitution.[33] The electorate today is also becoming increasingly alive to the fact that the courts, in holding legislation unconstitutional, have really abandoned a purely judicial function and have undertaken in a degree the political function of a second chamber in protecting property interests from the legislature. True, the action of the court is in form still judicial. It purports to apply the constitutional prohibition to the legislation involved in the particular litigated case arising between contending parties. But the court’s decision, once made, is now acquiesced in by all departments of the government and all public officers, as a complete disposition of the act held void. The compiler of the statutes omits it from the compiled laws as being no law at all. The court does in fact veto out of existence an act of the legislature for the entire state government and the inhabitants of the state. It does this also in response to a very general prohibition upon the legislature, such as that “no person shall be deprived of property without due process of law”--a phrase so vague that it gives the court a discretion which approaches that of the legislature in considering whether a proposed act is wise and fair to property or not. The disclosure to the electorate that courts, in using their judicial veto, are really exercising a great political power has resulted in an increasing demand that judges should be elected as political officers; that their economic and social bias be known--in short, that they have a politico-judicial platform and be subject to the recall.