{"id":342,"date":"2020-05-21T14:14:38","date_gmt":"2020-05-21T14:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new-constitution.com\/?p=342"},"modified":"2020-05-22T03:25:24","modified_gmt":"2020-05-22T03:25:24","slug":"why-limit-and-stagger-the-terms-of-the-supreme-court-justices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new-constitution.com\/?p=342","title":{"rendered":"Why Limit and Stagger the Terms of the Supreme Court Justices?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243; background_color=&#8221;rgba(129,123,247,0.2)&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;][et_pb_menu _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|10px||10px|false|false&#8221; saved_tabs=&#8221;all&#8221; global_module=&#8221;228&#8243;][\/et_pb_menu][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Supreme Court justices shall serve single terms of 20 years. This insulates them from the changing winds of public opinion and political expediency, allowing them to render their judgements based on enduring Constitutional principles and legal presidents. The ability of the Supreme Court to adapt to enduring changes in society, however, is enhanced by limiting the term of each justice to 20 years, and ensuring that new justices are regularly added to the court every 15 months to replace retiring justices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text admin_label=&#8221;Comment Instructions&#8221; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243; background_color=&#8221;rgba(0,0,0,0)&#8221; custom_padding=&#8221;5px|10px|5px|10px|false|false&#8221; saved_tabs=&#8221;all&#8221; global_module=&#8221;479&#8243;]<\/p>\n<p>Comments are welcome below. All comments must be respectfully written and not contain misinformation or fallacious reasoning. We welcome thoughtful dialogue of differences.<\/p>\n<p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;][et_pb_comments _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;][\/et_pb_comments][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[et_pb_section fb_built=&#8221;1&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243; background_color=&#8221;rgba(129,123,247,0.2)&#8221;][et_pb_row _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;][et_pb_column type=&#8221;4_4&#8243; _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;][et_pb_menu _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243; custom_padding=&#8221;|10px||10px|false|false&#8221; saved_tabs=&#8221;all&#8221; global_module=&#8221;228&#8243;][\/et_pb_menu][et_pb_text _builder_version=&#8221;4.4.6&#8243;] Supreme Court justices shall serve single terms of 20 years. This insulates them from the changing winds of public opinion and political expediency, allowing them to render their judgements based on enduring Constitutional principles and legal presidents. The ability of the Supreme Court [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new-constitution.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new-constitution.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new-constitution.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new-constitution.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new-constitution.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=342"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/new-constitution.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":535,"href":"https:\/\/new-constitution.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342\/revisions\/535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new-constitution.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new-constitution.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new-constitution.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}