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  1.   Farnsworth, supra note 5, at 411.
  2.   See Jackson Testimony, supra note 3, at 5; State Supreme Courts, supra note 6.
  3.   See Ginsburg Testimony, supra note 10, at 3; Zachary Elkins & Tom Ginsburg, Characteristics of National Constitutions, Version 3.0, Compar. Consts. Project (May 20, 2021), https://comparativeconstitutionsproject.org/download-data/#.
  4.   Jackson Testimony, supra note 3, at 5.
  5.   See Justices 1789 to Present, supra note 16.
  6.   McConnell Testimony, supra note 3, at 7.
  7.   See Chilton, Epps, Rozema & Sen, supra note 31.
  8.   Tracey E. George & Chris Guthrie, Remaking the United States Supreme Court in the Courts’ of Appeals Image, 58 Duke L.J. 1439, 1461 (2009).
  9.   McConnell Testimony, supra note 3, at 5.
  10.   Id.
  11.   See Chapter 2, at 93.
  12.   Calabresi & Lindgren, supra note 14, at 826–31.
  13.   Chilton, Epps, Rozema & Sen, supra note 31, at 3.
  14.   Designers would have to consider how a term limits system would operate in relation to the existing set of retirement statutes and whether those would need to be changed.
  15.   See Jackson Testimony, supra note 3, at 18.
  16.   See, e.g., Amar Testimony, supra note 3, at 3–4; Cramton, supra note 15, at 1323–25; H.R. 8424, 116th Cong. (2020); H.R. 5140, 117th Cong. (2021); Term Limits, Fix Ct. (Sep. 29, 2020), https://fixthecourt.com/fix/term-limits.
  17.   Amar Testimony, supra note 3.
  18.   510 U.S. 163 (1994).
  19.   28 U.S.C. § 43(b).
  20.   5 U.S. (1 Cranch) 299 (1803).
  21.   Id. at 309.
  22.   Id.
  23.   See generally Joshua Glick, Comment, On the Road: The Supreme Court and the History of Circuit Riding, 24 Cardozo L. Rev. 1753 (2003).
  24.   See 28 U.S.C. § 294.
  25.   U.S. Const. art. III, § 1.
  26.   U.S. Const. art. II, § 2.
  27.   291 U.S. 339 (1934).
  28.   Id. at 351.
  29.   Id. at 350.
  30.   Id.
  31.   539 U.S. 69, 72 (2003) (noting that while judges of the District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands cannot be designated to sit on a federal court of appeals because they are not Article III judges, senior circuit judges “are, of course, life-tenured Article III judges who serve during ‘good Behaviour’ for compensation that may not be diminished while in office”).
  32.   Booth, 291 U.S. at 351.

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