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Question #1- Is it fair that a “higher power” -- just nine individuals -- decides who is right in an argument? What are some reasons this is fair, and some examples when it might not be?

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Question #1- Is it fair that a “higher power” -- just nine individuals -- decides who is right in an argument? What are some reasons this is fair, and some examples when it might not be?

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Question #2 - In the Supreme Court, majority rules, even when a majority could only mean five out of nine. Is this a fair system? Why might the Supreme Court be structured this way?

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Question #2 - In the Supreme Court, majority rules, even when a majority could only mean five out of nine. Is this a fair system? Why might the Supreme Court be structured this way?

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Why are there only 9 justices instead of 10? Why does that make sense?

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Why are there only 9 justices instead of 10? Why does that make sense?

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why on the supreme court do they only give each lawyer only 30 minutes to convince the justice why their side is right because I would need more time to convince someone

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Why do the lawyers on each side have to prepare arguments?

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U_U I predict that she will have smarter kids in the future U_U

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because if it was an even number there would be a tie but if there was nine there would be a tie breaker

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Why are the justices on court for life when chosen

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Because there is few people we can trust in the world :)
It wouldn't make sense either :)

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why dose it seem like more than 30 minutes . thats a small time to prepare a argument

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It makes sense because with an odd number there are no ties on the verdict

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becuase even numbers = ties

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I think it might be and a little not so I'm basically saying both because they are trusted by the government and the senate to make the right decisions but at the same time they might not be fair about it.

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Yes, Because again...The government trusts them to do the right thing.

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Why were they chosen...Why couldn't it be someone else?

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In summary there are different levels of courts and they are there for different reasons. Supreme court is the highest court and it is there for if there is a problem involving more than one state or if something has to do with federal law. Lawyers have 30 minutes to prepare an argument to defend their side whether it is the victims side or the defendants side. In conclusion, court is there to keep things in order and to help bring justice.

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If there was 8 or 10 judges any even number of judges then say half of them are on one side and the other half are on the other side then nothing will ever be decided but if there is a odd number like 9 then there is a tie breaker

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How come the lawyers only have 30 minutes to prepare an argument

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I think that it is fair since they are a higher power I think they would know what they were doing and like just say that they were in the court room and made the other people in the court room decide then they would probably pick someone that they knew and liked they wouldn't choose them because it was the right thing to do

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I don't think this is fair because 5-9 majority rules you already know who is gonna win so they shouldn't even vote like that because in that case you would already know who would win regardless if you voted or not. Like if I was on the voting side with 5 and the other side had 9 people voting my vote wouldn't even matter because the nine people who voted there's would matter since they had the majority .

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I think it's fair because they were chosen by the government to decide what's right

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I don't think it's fair because if the majority doesn't like someone's argument the can end the case with ease

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If they had an even number the decision could be tied. Since they have an odd number the decision has to go one way or the other.

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The supreme Court is the highest court. It is put into place so that is someone does not get fair treatment in the local court and they have used all their appeals, then they can have their case tried in Supreme Court.

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Yes, this is fair. It is fair because we have to have some kind of justice for people that break the law.

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Yes this is fair because more people believe it then the other ones. It is probably this way so we can get a result and not always be fighting on what is true and not true.