Know which officials are voted into office and which are appointed, and by whom.
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Everything from who sits on your local board of education to the prosecutors and judicial appointments in your area and much more are all impacted by who holds political office.
You want to represent the country and you want elected officials that are representative of the country.
As to the question of elected or not elected, each member of the European Commission has been appointed jointly by the governments of the 15 member states, and undergone individual scrutiny and a vote of confidence from the European Parliament.
Responsibility for overseeing the implementation of election law typically resides with partisan officials, many with public stakes in the election outcome.
Judges are appointed often through the political process.
In general, any incoming administration must carefully examine ('vet') its nominees for high public office.
Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.
Here, sir, the people govern; here they act by their immediate representatives.
The most important political office is that of the private citizen.
The citizens must be certain that the governor is attending to the duties for which he was elected.
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