James Wilson

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James Wilson (September 14, 1742 – August 21, 1798), was a signer of the Declaration of Independence, twice elected to the Continental Congress, a major force in the drafting of the nation’s Constitution, a leading legal theoretician and one of the six original justices appointed by George Washington to the Supreme Court of the United States.

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Continental Congress, james wilson, signer declaration of independence, original justice of the supreme court of the united states, legal theoretician, Three-Fifths Compromise

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Benson John Lossing, ed. Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (vol. 10) (New York, NY: Harper and Brothers, 1912)

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