How does the maximum water level for spring tides compare with the maximum water level for neap tides?

Spring tides are the highest and lowest tides experienced on Earth and Neap tides are lower overall than normal everyday tides .

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a time line cause it goes from 685 to 978

the framers of the constitution insisted that federal judges be nominated instead of elected due to their desire to have judges above the shifting whims of the masses.

the hope, whether achieved or not, was that federal judges would only be beholden to the law and that by not having judges be elected, they would be protected if that law dictated an outcome that ran counter to popular opinion.