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In the past forty years, the" private attorney general" has become an accepted character in legal debates and reform discussions. Conceptually, the idea enjoys bipartisan support, but for widely different reasons. Liberals promote the private attorney general, in part, as an antidote to what they view as a conservative administration's reluctance to aggressively enforce various regulatory laws. Conservatives find virtue in the private attorney general concept because of its function in" privatizing" law enforcement pursuant to the ideals of economic efficiency. Whether the private attorney general is heralded as the" Lone Ranger"