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Article III Section 1
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Just as the framers of the Constitution considered the Congress to be the most vital branch of the new government and therefore dealt with that branch in the very first article of the Constitution, so too was the placement of the judicial branch in Article III of the Constitution a reflection of their view of the relative importance of that branch. The brevity and vagueness of the language in Article III are similarly a reflection of their view of the relative importance of that branch as well as of their uncertainty about its function in the new federal union.
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Article III, Section 1, stipulates that there would be one ''supreme'' court in the nation but is vague about the number and extent of the ''inferior'' courts. The provisionnbthat all federal judges should hold their offices during ''good Behavior'' was intended to protect the independence of the judiciary and reinforce the separation of powers among the three branches of the new government.
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