#william cushing

Alonzo Cushing

lonzo is like a really cute ghost ok he plays with his brother and plays pranks on people with will

William Cushing

he is the type of ghost to smack people in the bum and get a jolly good laugh from it

Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain

LaWrEnCe is a ghost in bowdoin that shows up to tell kids to get to their lectures if anyone is late oh and if they get brave and talk back he flies through them and they either go to class or leave with a new mental scar its fine dudes maybe its both what do i know

Thomas Chamberlain

he is uh a really sad ghost, he regrets the way he died but he also is happy he died, so he cannot exactly move onward in the after-life so he haunts the battlefields he has gone to, and his old homes in maine

Ellis Spear

ok he is really salty maybe ?? he sits at little round top like, “ugh” and just stays there or is in bowdoin and maybe made up with lawrence and they scare kids together as a joke

Francis William Bartlett

wait ok i got the perfect one he is a one legged ghost and when you hear one leg dragging and one foot step everyone gets fearful but then theres more 

when he appears he is just a prosthetic leg (he can appear fully and knows it) but being a prosthetic leg gets the best reactions, especially if he wants to kick a person

Henry Livermore Abbott

he mocks you. Nothing else, he sits by with Oliver probably, and mocks you while Oliver sits there like, “ok but-”

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr

ok he is the ghost that misplaces your items  and watches you look and hes like, “hA”  and then sometimes he actually tries to help but most of the time hes like lol ima mess with this fool

Edward Needles Hallowell

he slaps racist people as a ghost. He probably goes into kkk meeting and ruins things on purpose because wE LOVE A QUAKER ABOLITIONIST!

Robert Gould Shaw

John Jay, the first Chief Justice, died at 83. John Rutledge, the second justice and second Chief Justice, did die at 60. But William Cushing, one of the original 6, served out a 20 year term and died at the age of 78. James Wilson, a Founding Father, died at 55. James Iredell died at an early age, however, John Blair Jr. lived until 68.

Averages is the key word here.

The Founders were not savages baffled by the implausible idea that a man might die in his 80s. Jefferson and Adams were particularly long-lived. After the shaky period of the early years when justices served short terms for political and personal reasons, extended terms became commonplace. But what is truly significant is that the Founders were not worried about lifetime appointments because the Supreme Court served a judicial role. It was only when the pernicious doctrine of Judicial Supremacism took hold that the Supreme Court became the supreme power in the land.

I haven’t even read the accompanying article but I swear to god I ghostwrote this.