[Former Supreme Court Justice Stephen] Breyer's comments come as recent polling shows a majority of Americans support age limits in the court and the court has faced historically low approval ratings.
@#4 ... age restrictions ...
Yeah, that seems to be a concern.
So I asked the search engines about life expectancy in the 1770's.
I did that to determine the context that was available at the time for our Founder Fathers when then wrote in the Constitution that Supreme Court Justices are appointed for life.
The search results were meager.
But there's this...
Life Expectancy From Prehistory to 1800 and Beyond
www.verywellhealth.com
... 1800s to Today
From the 1500s until around the early-1800s, life expectancy throughout Europe hovered between 30 and 40 years. This was due in part to infant mortality rates that remained at 25% until 1800.8
Hogan DP, Kertzer DI. The social bases of declining infant mortality: lessons from a nineteenth-century Italian town. Eur J Popul. 1987 May;2(3-4):361-85. doi:10.1007/BF01796597
But from the mid-1800s onward, Finch estimated that life expectancy at birth doubled every 10 generations due to improved health care, sanitation, immunizations, access to clean water, and better nutrition.6 ...
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