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James Iredell

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Justice on the US Supreme Court

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  • Reports of Cases at Law, Supreme Court, 1840-52
  • Reports of Cases in Equity Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of ...
  • Reports of Cases in Equity Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of North Carolina
  • Reports of Cases at Law Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of North Carolina

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Quotes

  • The power of impeachment is given by this Constitution, to bring great offenders to punishment. It is calculated to bring them to punishment for crimes which it is not easy to describe, but which every one must be convinced is a high crime and misdemeanor against the government.
  • It would be not only useless, but dangerous, to enumerate a number of rights which are not intended to be given up; because it would be implying, in the strongest manner, that every right not included in the exception might be impaired by the government without usurption; and it would be impossible to enumerate every one. Let any one make what collection or enumeration of rights he pleases, I will immediately mention twenty or thirty more rights not contained in it.
  • Had Congress undertaken to guarantee religious freedom, or any particular species of it, they would then have had a pretense to interfere in a subject they have nothing to do with. Each state, so far as the clause in question does not interfere, must be left to the operation of its own principles.

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