“A Public official is a fiduciary toward the public, including in the
case of a judge, the litigants who appear before him and if he deliberately conceals material information from them he is guilty of fraud,” U.S. v Holzer 816 F. 2d 304, 307 (1987).
"Public officers are the trustees and servants of the people, and at all times, amenable to them." Georgia Department v. Sistrunk 291 S.E. 2d 524, 526 (1982).
“… public office is that of a public trust or agency created for the benefit of the people, and in which the incumbent has not a property right, to be administered under legislative control in the interest of the people.” (Newton v. Mahoning County,100 U.S. 548, 25 L. Ed. 710; Robinson v. White, 26 Ark. 139; Ford v. Board of State Harbor Commissioners, 81 Cal. 19,22 P. 278; State v. Hobart, 12 Nev.
408; People ex rel. Robertson v. Van Gaskin, 5 Mont. 352, 6 P. 30; Territory v. Carson, 7 Mont. 417, 16 P. 569; Lloyd v. Silver Bow County, 11 Mont. 408, 28 P. 453.) See State ex rel Nagle v. Sullivan 40 P. 2d 995, 997, Supreme Court of Montana (1935).
Any constitutional provision intended to confer a benefit should be liberally construed in favor in the clearly intended and expressly designated beneficiary. “Then a constitution should receive a literal interpretation in favor of the Citizen, is especially true, with respect to those provisions which were designed to safeguard the liberty and security of the Citizen in regard to person and property.” -- 16Am Jur 2d:
16Am Jur 2d., Sec. 97; Bary v. United States - 273 US 128
