Nine Justices Has Been the Established Number Since

question 152

Multiple Choice

Nine justices has been the established number since

• A) the framing of the Constitution.
• B) Justice Marshall retired before the Civil War.
• C) 1869.
• D) 1896.
• E) 1936.

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