be such an incentive to put the
very young justices on the
court, so i think we could make
an argument that the framers
view was that service on the
supreme court would be kind of a
capstone and not something that
would come early in somebody's
legal career.
we want to talk a little bit
more about this, because people
may not be completely up on the
various proposals of that are
circulating.
we will leave aside that two
years, but looking at the 18
years, there is at least an
argument that could be done
without a constitutional
amendment if somebody got life
tenure on the supreme court, but
the actual active job of serving
and working day today as a
justice -- day to day as a
justice would be for the nine