The counter-reasoning concerns a single article: the Director's nine-year term.

The objection is this: the law establishes an office that is nearly impossible to remove, and it does so knowingly. The majority calls this a safeguard; the minority reminds that the other name for such a safeguard is the absence of oversight.

The minority nevertheless concedes this: if the hand that keeps the record changes often, the ledger's hand trembles. The objection is not to the term, but to a removal procedure confined to a single ground. For any fault other than forgery there is no path, and this gap will one day be looked for.

It is written so that it may be recorded.