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    Week 2 Discussion 2 The Constitution Discuss the impact of Superior Court Justices who serve on the bench for decades. Do they reflect the prevailing norms better than elected legislatures? State why or why not.  The Constitution has always had several interpretations. Pick one amendment and provide an interpretation for and against that amendment.  Discuss how public administrators can juggle situations where two or more parties interpret the constitution differently. The Constitution." Please respond to the following: Discuss the impact of Superior Court Justices who serve on the bench for decades. Do they reflect the prevailing norms better than elected legislatures? State why or why not. The basic reason of lifetime selection is to guarantee the honor of the power established to Court Justices and shield them against unnecessary meddling from any of the legislative or executive branch. The express and implied division of the Supreme Court from the other branches of Government is consequently upheld. In agreement with the standard of providing checks and balances, the executive and legislative branches implement power over the Supreme Court by, correspondingly, proposing and approving candidates for that body. In the highly politicized atmosphere , which has long attended the ostensibly apolitical field of Court Justices, Presidents often endeavor to support their agendas by selecting Court Justice nominees approving toward their views. At times, however, the judicial leanings of Court Justices prove unlike in practice than they had formerly appeared. The policy of lifetime appointment, therefore, secures a Court Justice against "vengeance" for decisions going against the desires of his or her Presidential backer. In this view, proponents have cited Alexander Hamilton's declaration in the Federalist Papers that "nothing can contribute so much to its inflexibility and independence as permanency in office". A variety of concerns have also been raised regarding the conduct in which lifetime appointment impinges on the office of Supreme Court Justices. One apprehension is that this policy encourages the Supreme Court to be subjugated by thinking better fitted to the influential years of the Court Justices than to the present - day situation of the United States. In this view, the Supreme Court would be better served by more recurrent turnov er in its membership. Another issue that has been raised is of the psychological capacities of a Supreme Court Justice becoming diminished with age. This likelihood could not possibly fall under the purview of the condition for "good Behavior" and at hand is not provided for under U.S. law. Criticisms of the general policy of lifetime appointment has also been stoked by the criticism of precise Supreme court Justices and of the Court's traditions in general for moving toward a more legislative, politicized function, which critics might locate less challenging if offenders did not linger on the bench for so long. The Constitution has always had several interpretations. Pick one amendment and provide an interpretation for and against that amendment. The Seventh Amendment guaranties a jury trial for “suits at common law, : which includes cases in which private legal rights are determined, but not “equity cases” in which a court is asked to grant an injunction or to decide a cases based on basic fairness (Szypszak, 2011). The Seventh Amendment extends the right to a jury trial to federal civil cases such as car accidents, disputes among corporations for violation of contract, or most prejudice or employment disputes. In civil cases, the person brin ging the lawsuit seeks money damages or a court order preventing the person being sued from engaging in certain behavior. To win, the plaintiff must provide evidence his or her case by “a predominance of the evidence,” that is

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