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A different Enlightenment thought.
Explanation:
The Declaration of Independence features the Enlightenment ideas of a <u><em>social contract</em></u> (power exchange between citizens and the government to ensure a citizens protection), <u><em>popular sovereignty</em></u> (the idea that the government's power comes from the people, so the people have the right to rule the government), and unalienable <u><em>natural rights</em></u> (rights we are all born with. In the Declaration of Independence, these rights are defines as the right to live, pursue of happiness, and be free [liberty]).
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The British Empire expanded to include most of India, large parts of Africa and many other territories throughout the world.
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“I do think that if there were a long term—I don’t know, 18, 20 years, something like that, and it was fixed—I would say that was fine. In fact, it’d make my life a lot simpler, to tell you the truth.” – Justice Stephen Breyer1
“The Framers adopted life tenure at a time when people simply did not live as long as they do now. A judge insulated from the normal currents of life for twenty-five or thirty years was a rarity then, but is becoming commonplace today. Setting a term of, say, fifteen years would ensure that federal judges would not lose all touch with reality through decades of ivory tower existence. It would also provide a more regular and greater degree of turnover among the judges. Both developments would, in my view, be healthy ones.” – Future Chief Justice John Roberts2
The rules governing the U.S. Supreme Court must be updated to reflect the reality of life in modern America. The average tenure of a Supreme Court justice has significantly lengthened since the establishment of the federal judiciary in the 1700s, giving outsize power to nine individuals in a way the framers of the Constitution could never have imagined. This longevity has resulted in a lack of regularity in vacancies, introducing further randomness to the judicial selection process. As a result, the confirmation process for the highest court has become politically divisive, with extremely narrow votes and theatrics from the nominees themselves. This state of affairs is untenable; policymakers must address it by enacting legislation to create term limits for justices.
