Do you know how the circuit court system works?
Basically, circuit courts send a traveling judge to different locations to promote a greater understanding of the cases in that region.
Yes, as a circuit court judge I will serve a 6 year term.
I hope you enjoy it. I've heard that King Henry II was responsible for sending judges to travel a circuit to hear cases each year.
I hopefully will. Did he really? That is an interesting fact that not a lot of people may know. Why did the practice start?
He felt it was more practical than expecting all of the citizens to bring their cases to London. It is a quite clever idea if you ask me.
Well that makes sense, and it's way more effective and organized. I bet everyone was relieved and better equipped to deal with their problems.
Yes. In the U.S. on the frontier the judges traveled by horse with a group of lawyers.
Well good thing we don't have to do that anymore, I don't know how I'd manage on a horse!
I can see what you mean. President Lincoln traveled as a lawyer like this on the Illinois Circuit.