Using the rhetoric of the First Amendment, a string of US Supreme Court cases has allowed members of some religious groups to limit the freedoms of other Americans.
How much of that life expectancy was infant mortality? Or preventable diseases that didn’t affect the upper class people who would get lifetime appointments?
But I think the idea was to have an impartial third party that was unaffected by political maneuvering necessary for near constant elections.
Unfortunately it hasn’t worked out for us so much lately.
Most of it. If you lived past puberty you’d live to be a normal age, 50+. Kids tended to die of disease, but once you’re basically an adult, you’re a lot harder to kill.
I always thought it was pretty far out for a contemporary democracy to have lifelong appointments with the word “supreme” in the title.
In the rest of the world this usually indicates something well divorced from democracy.
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How much of that life expectancy was infant mortality? Or preventable diseases that didn’t affect the upper class people who would get lifetime appointments?
But I think the idea was to have an impartial third party that was unaffected by political maneuvering necessary for near constant elections.
Unfortunately it hasn’t worked out for us so much lately.
Most of it. If you lived past puberty you’d live to be a normal age, 50+. Kids tended to die of disease, but once you’re basically an adult, you’re a lot harder to kill.
Don’t I know it.
Indeed. The actuarials will give a solid life expectancy for those that reach appointment age.
Life expectancies don’t work that way.
There was a lot of child death pulling that life expectancy down.