Term of office that lasts for the officeholder's lifetime.
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The same are allotted to the individual as a life tenure only.
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No life tenure would hold for an office which did not exist.
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Holding life tenure under the Constitution, they could be reached only by impeachment.
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So a seven years' tenure has been substituted for life tenure.
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But the Judiciary was entrenched in life tenure and not susceptible to this remedy.
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Popular election and life tenure cannot well go together.
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A life tenure cannot be adopted as a rule, unless pensions for a civil list shall follow.
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Accepting the Chief-Justiceship under a life tenure, he was "saddled" on the Republicans, as they said.
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And then life tenure after the manner of the Caesars and Cromwells of history, and especially the Latin-Americans-Bolivar ,Rosasand Diaz?
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On the question of a life tenure there is a similar division of opinion, which logically follows the two positions just stated.
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Instead of the usual life tenure of trustees, their term was made five years and they were to be chosen by ballot.
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Copyright is thus made a life tenure and something more in all countries except our own, where its utmost limit is forty-two years.
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The importance of having nine unaccountable people with life tenure decide controversial issues is underlined by the idea that they stand above partisan politics.
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