Note 1
THE FEDERALIST. No. LXXIX.
Vide Constitution of Massachusetts, chapter 2, section 1, article 13.
…y State, have seen cause to lament the want of precise and explicit precautions in the State constitutions on this head. Some of these indeed have declared that PERMANENT[1] salaries should be established for the judges; but the experiment has in some instances shown that such expressions are not sufficiently definite to preclude legislative evasions. Something still more positive and unequivocal has been evinced to be requisi…
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