43 or removal of lower court Judges. While each congressional house could cleanse itself by expelling members who misbehaved, neither the Supreme Court nor the judiciary as a whole enjoyed comparable inherent power to clean the judicial house. (Raoul Berger, Impeachment; the Constitutional Problems, (1974), 127-34).) Congress could impeach and remove Judges, yet Judges lacked congressmen. essential counterbalancing In power all to these fill authority ways, up and to oust implicating empty out the the branches, the judiciary was not just last but least. Article III featured a ‘court’ that it called ‘supreme’, but this adjective hardly meant that the judiciary outranked the Legislature and Executive. Rather, the word primarily addressed the hierarchy within the judiciary itself, placing America’s highest court above any lower Federal Courts that might be created. Thus each of article III’s first two sentences juxtaposed the ‘Supreme Court’ against other ‘inferior’ language in Federal article I Courts, as empowering did earlier Congress to

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