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 CH. XXXVIII.] constitution, and see, how far adequate means are provided for all these important purposes.

§ 1573. The first section of the third article is as follows: The judicial power of the United States shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts, as the congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The judges, both of the supreme and inferior courts, shall hold their offices during good behaviour; and shall at stated times receive for their services a compensation, which shall not be diminished during their continuance in office. To this may be added the clause in the enumeration of the powers of congress in the first article, (which is but a mere repetition,) that congress shall have power "to constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court."