Nor can this well be remedied without a change in the system, because the adding of judges to the Supreme Court, enough for the accommodation of all parts of the country with circuit courts, would create a court altogether too numerous for a judicial body of any sort.
Lincoln warns that simply adding judges to the Supreme Court would lead to an unwieldy judicial body.
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