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What I mean is we vote for the president and vice president and we vote for senators and representatives, thus we directly vote for those in power in two of the three branches. Why don't we vote for federal justices? We are trusted in choosing the leaders of the executive and legislative branches, but not the judicial? It's a bit confusing. The executive branch checks by controling the military and police and federal defence and investigation organizations. The legislative branch makes the laws that rule the land. The judicial branch interprits the laws and passes (ta dah) judgment. Those are the checks and balances. Why does someone with obvious party bias get to choose the heads of a different branch?
If by some fluke, we had a terrible, evil president elected (no comments from the peanut gallery), and he chose several evil judges, he could control a majority of the governmental power, and checks and balances would die.
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That's why the Legislative branch has to approve the appointments first. And about being for life? It's because the founding fathers feared a true democracy as much as a king. They wanted some separation of the people and everything else. So that if the majority of people suddenly came up with the idea to exterminate all (insert name of people here) there would be some people there to put a big rubber NO stamp on it.
Now, not to say we havent done things like this legally, but that's what it was intended to be IMO.