In order to ensure that judges would exercise their independent judgments, the framers established
a. restrictions on impeachments of judges.
b. a life term and a prohibition on cutting judicial salaries.
c. prohibitions on communications between the judicial and legislative branches.
d. a solicitor general to oversee the integrity of the judicial branch.
e. a condition allowing judges to read their own policy preferences into the Constitution.
ANS: B
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