Mr. Ross, For the first 80 years of our nation's history, the size of the Supreme Court changed with some regularity. Why was that? Microphone. Microphone. Pardon. The expansion of population. Originally, every the justices were chosen largely on geographical grounds. And every, of course, every the justices rode circuits. (00:01–00:08)
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Asserts that the size of the Supreme Court changed regularly during the first 80 years of U.S. history.
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