China's Communist leaders cling to Deng Xiaoping's belief that their continuance in power will depend on economic progress.
That clause, inserted by the framers to protect judicial independence, provides that the compensation of life-tenured federal judges "shall not be diminished during their continuance in office".
Their continuance in office was also part of the referendum on Sunday, with at least three of them winning by a wider margin than the president.
The appeals court held that the lawmakers had not violated the provision in Article III of the Constitution that guarantees to federal judges "a compensation which shall not be diminished during their continuance in office".
That clause provides: "The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts... shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services a Compensation which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office".
"The judges, both of the supreme and inferior courts, shall hold their offices during good behaviour, and shall, at stated times, receive for their services, a compensation, which shall not be diminished during their continuance in office".
This was the Court's year 1920 interpretation of the "Compensation Clause", the rule that Federal judges "shall, at stated Times, receive for their Services a Compensation, which shall not be diminished during their Continuance in Office" under Article III, section 1 of the U.S. Constitution.
In addition, nurses who had high continuance commitment were two times more likely to stay in their profession than nurses who had low continuance commitment.
But entropy plays a role, not only in the continuance of individuals and their parts but also in the evolutionary development of species and thereby in speciation.
Three other members of the Security Council, France, Russia and China -- all ardent believers in Saddam's continuance in power -- would lean on the U.S. not to be so bellicose as to insist the U.N. hold fast to its stand.
