How to pronounce“tenure”in English
It merely says the Justices shall hold their offices quote unquote "during good behavior." Now, for a bunch of very good reasons, early on, we decided to interpret that as lifetime
tenure because kings were removing judges willy nilly from the bench.
So, they thought, "Let's go the other way with this." But nonetheless, it doesn't actually say lifetime tenure.
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Definitions of “tenure”
A status of possessing a thing or an office; an incumbency.
“All that seems thine own, / Held by the tenure of his will alone.”
A period of time during which something is possessed.
To grant tenure, the status of having a permanent academic position, to (someone).
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