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Why Are There Nine Justices on the U.S. Supreme Court?: Media

How did nine become the magic number for the U.S.’s most-powerful judicial body?

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Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court of the United States, 1894. Left to right: Associate...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (neg. no. LC-USZ62-76625)