Supreme Court justice term limits

Hi!

How do you think history would have changed if the members of the Supreme Court weren't appointed for life? After all, no other members of the government are chosen for life. I would have expected, at the very minimum, the president to not be as powerful as he is in OTL because his appointments won't survive for 20+ years, and the Supreme Court would likely be more in sync with popular sentiment if its members were recycled on a regular bases.

Suppose the Founding Fathers use this rule: nine people on the Supreme Court, elected by the president, with staggered three-year terms. That way, each president has at least one chance to appoint justices. Each year, three of its members are selected by the president and approved by Congress. If a justice dies or retires in office, the president chooses an alternate to serve out the remainder of his term.

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You may want to include this possible amendment as well: to make sure that a president is given exactly one chance to appoint justices, in cases where he would have normally been given two opportunities to elect justices (years 1 and 4 of his tenure), Congress chooses the justices and the president approves them. A veto can be overridden with the traditional 2/3 majority.
 
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