This is a revelation that is taking a couple days to sink in. It is pretty profound - at least to me.

A suitor sent me this paper saying that it shows the Attorney General to be at the service of the Crown. But I searched out the word "crown" first off and the first hit was very interesting:

Under our form of government all of the prerogatives which pertain to the crown in England under the common law are here vested in the people, and if the Attorney General is vested by the constitution with all the common law powers of that officer and it devolves upon him to perform all the common law duties which were imposed upon that officer, then he becomes the law officer of the people...