This is provided for in Article II of the Constitution, which states that the President " shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint ... Judges of the supreme Court.

The basic source for Judges was a collection of loosely connected stories about tribal heroes who saved the people in battle.

In the 20th century the first part of the prologue ( chapters 1: 1-2: 5 ) and the two parts of the epilogue ( 17-21 ) were commonly seen as miscellaneous collections of fragments tacked on to the main text, and the second part of the prologue ( 2: 6-3: 6 ) as an introduction composed expressly for the book ; this view has been challenged in the latter decades of the century, and there is an increasing willingness to see Judges as the work of a single individual, working by carefully selecting, reworking and positioning his source material to introduce and conclude his themes.

Scholars agree that the Deuteronomists ' hand can be seen in Judges through the book's cyclical nature: the Israelites fall into idolatry, God punishes them for their sins with oppression by foreign peoples, the Israelites cry out to God for help, and God sends a judge to deliver them from the foreign oppression.

This is the theme played out in Judges: the people are unfaithful to Yahweh and he therefore delivers them into the hands of their enemies ; the people then repent and entreat Yahweh for mercy, which he sends in the form of a judge ; the judge delivers the Israelites from oppression, but after a while they fall into unfaithfulness again and the cycle is repeated.

Judges is remarkable for the number of female characters who " play significant roles, active and passive, in the narratives.

The two Books of Samuel () are part of a series of historical books ( Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings ) that make up a theological history of the Israelites and affirm and explain God's law for Israel under the guidance of the prophets.

It concludes a series of historical books running from Joshua through Judges and Samuel, the overall purpose which is to provide a theological explanation for the destruction of the Jewish kingdom by Babylon in 586 BCE and a foundation for a return from exile.

Judges at the competition watch for illegal moves from the group or any individual member.

Judges from the Court of Final Appeal, High Court, District Courts along with members from the various tribunals and Coroner's Court all have the power to impose immediate punishments for contempt in the face of the court, derived from legislation or through common law:

In one case, the Provincial Judges Reference ( 1997 ), it was found a law can be held invalid for contradicting unwritten principles, in this case judicial independence.

The solution, set out in the series of history books from Joshua and Judges to Samuel and Kings, was to interpret the Babylonian destruction as divinely-ordained punishment for the failure of the kings to worship Yahweh alone.

Judges serve for 4 years and are eligible for re-election.

* 1431 – Judges ' investigations for the trial of Joan of Arc begin in Rouen, France, the seat of the English occupation government.

The Bible provides a number of references to nails, including the story in Judges of the wife who drives a nail into the temple of her husband while he is asleep, the provision of iron for nails by King David for Solomon's Temple, and of course the crucifixion of Christ.

Judges in the U. K use three primary rules for interpreting the law.

Judges are not bound to impose a sentence within the range of a joint submission, and a judge's disregard for a joint submission is not in itself grounds for the sentence to be altered on appeal.

Judges were paid 15, 000 Dutch florins a year, with daily expenses of 50 florins to pay for living expenses, and an additional 45, 000 florins for the President, who was required to live at The Hague.

The fact that Elkanah, a Levite, was denominated an Ephraimite is analogous to the designation of a Levite belonging to Judah ( Judges 17: 7, for example ).

The panel of judges will be assisted in their deliberations by The Climate Group and Special Advisor to The Virgin Earth Prize Judges, Steve Howard.

The Prize of Ten Guineas for the best words for a Patriotic Song has been awarded by the Judges to Mrs. C. J. Carleton.

In the same year he was also Chair of Judges for the Man Booker Prize.

At one point, he was the recipient of the Supreme Court Judges ' Prize.

In 2010 she chaired Judges for the Forward Poetry Prize, in 2011 delivered the Housman Lecture at the Hay Festival on " The Name and Nature of Poetry.

She was Chair of the Judges for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2006, and has judged many other literary prizes.

He has been among the winners of the first year of the Templeton Science & Religion course program and also among the Former Judges of The Templeton Prize .< ref >

She was Chairman of Judges, Booker Prize for Fiction, in 1996.

She judged the 1996 Whitbread Prize for fiction, the 1999 Guardian First Book Award, the 2000 Orwell Prize and was Chair of Judges for the 1997 Orange Prize and the 2002 Man Booker Prize.

When a Justice retires, they have the opportunity to assume duties similar to that of senior status assumed by District and Circuit Judges.

Nevertheless, fragments of Judges ( such as the Song of Deborah ) have been dated from much earlier, perhaps close to the period the book depicts.

Despite their appearance at the end of the Book of Judges, certain characters ( like Jonathan, the grandson of Moses ) and idioms present in the epilogue show that the therein " must have taken place ... early in the period of the judges.

Since the second half of the 20th century most scholars have agreed with Martin Noth's thesis that the books of Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings form parts of a single work.

Judges in common law systems usually have more extensive power to declare someone in contempt than judges in civil law systems.

Judges only have limited jurisdiction over arbitration issues.

Judges have accepted that the principle of party autonomy allows the parties to select the law most appropriate to their transaction.

Some scholars have suggested that he considered Ruth part of Judges, and Lamentations part of Jeremiah ; as the Christian translator Jerome recorded in the 4th century CE.

Whereas the late King James the Second by the Assistance of diverse evill Councellors Judges and Ministers imployed by him did endeavour to subvert and extirpate the Protestant Religion and the Lawes and Liberties of this Kingdome ( list of grievances including ) ... by causing severall good Subjects being Protestants to be disarmed at the same time when Papists were both Armed and Imployed contrary to Law, ( Recital regarding the change of monarch ) ... thereupon the said Lords Spirituall and Temporall and Commons pursuant to their respective Letters and Elections being now assembled in a full and free Representative of this Nation takeing into their most serious Consideration the best meanes for attaining the Ends aforesaid Doe in the first place ( as their Auncestors in like Case have usually done ) for the Vindicating and Asserting their ancient Rights and Liberties, Declare ( list of rights including ) ... That the Subjects which are Protestants may have Arms for their Defence suitable to their Conditions and as allowed by Law.

Entering or winning the contest does not require or imply endorsement or membership in the Church of Scientology, and the contest itself has been endorsed by a wide range of well-known speculative fiction writers ( see Judges and Winners above ) who have no relationship to Scientology.

Judges must retire at the age of 70, but may hold office until a new judge is elected and / or the cases in which they sit have come to an end.

The senior County Court Judges assigned to the County Court Divisions of Belfast and Derry have the titles of Recorder of Belfast and Recorder of Londonderry respectively, but are addressed the same as other County Court Judges.

Judges and legal analysts have voiced concerns that Congress can strip or remove from the judicial branch the ability to determine if legislation is constitutional.

In Judges 6-8 in the story of Gideon, the Amalekites and the Midianites are said to have amassed a visible army of at least 135, 000 encamped against Israel.

John Selden in his esteemed work Titles of Honour writes, " The word Baro ( Latin for Baron ) hath been also so much communicated, that not only all Lords of Mannors have been from antient time, and are at this day called sometimes Barons ( as in the stile of their Court Barons, which is Curia Baronis, & c. And I have read hors de son Barony in a barr to an Avowry for hors de son fee ) But also the Judges of the Exchequer have it from antient time fixed on them.

Judges in the County Courts are either former barristers or solicitors, whereas in the High Courts they are more likely to have formerly been a barrister.

Judges have been avoiding the real issue too long.

Similar British organizations are The National Guild of Wine and Beer Judges, who have judging categories for both beer, and wine ; and the National Association of Wine and Beermakers ( Amateur )-( NAWB ), who have held an annual show every year since 1959.

He also finds that Samson stories have, in contrast to much of Judges, an " almost total lack of a religious or moral tone ".