Another Stabbed at the US Constitution (Y.F)

The New York Times Article ( Another stabbed at the US Constitution) Revisiting the Constitution: we need term limits for Federal judges.

In this article there was one particular paragraph that stood out too me.

"But the average life expectancy of an American in 1787 was about 36, less than half of what it is today. the 21st century reality is that when the supreme court vacancies arise, one of the criteria for selection is that the judge be young enough to serve for several decade. Many of our most distinguished jurist, judges like  J. Harvie Wilkinson and Diane Wood , both in their sixties, are by now too "distinguished" for our highest court.


I think that the average life expectancy is still kind of the same as it was back than. the only reason that the life expectancy was so low back than because in the 1700s there was a high rate of infant mortality. In addition today in the modern world their has been a lot of discoveries, so i think that has something to do with the difference. In our society today, there has been a lot of medical cures that has been brought to society today compare to 1787.  I do think that the retirement age for judges should be 70 years old or so not reaching 80 years old. I think that when people get to a certain age their are things that start to diminish and they wont serve as they used to.