Originally Posted by Seaver

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.