What proportion of the body’s weight does the skeletal system make up ?

The human skeletal system consists of all  the bones, cartilage, tendons, and ligaments inside of the body. Together, the skeleton makes up about 20 percent of a person's body weight. An adult's skeleton contains 206 bones!

Explanation:

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.