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James Wilson (September 14, 1742 – August 21, 1798) was a Scottish-born American Founding Father, legal scholar, jurist, and statesman who served as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1789 to 1798.
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- September 14, 1742, Carskerdo Farm, Fife, Scotland, Great Britain
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16 de abr. de 2024 · James Wilson was a colonial American lawyer and political theorist, who signed both the Declaration of Independence (1776) and the Constitution of the United States (1787). Immigrating to North America in 1765, Wilson taught Greek and rhetoric in the College of Philadelphia and then studied law.
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James Wilson, founding father, political philosopher James Wilson (1742-98), an émigré from Scotland, became one of the premier minds and leading figures of the American Founding. He would settle eventually in Philadelphia, but he brought with him an education shaped at the Universities of St. Andrews, Glasgow, and Edinburgh.
13 de jul. de 2020 · In the first entry into the series on “Forgotten Founders,” we explored Gouverneur Morris. Today, we examine James Wilson, the Pennsylvanian and Scottish founder behind popular sovereignty, the structure of the judiciary, and many of the most notable compromises at the Constitutional Convention.
Wilson was born in Fife, Scotland in 1742 in the Scottish Lowlands. He won a scholarship to the University at St. Andrews and attended the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh where he studied prominent thinkers of the Scottish enlightenment such as Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, and Adam Smith.
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draw from the Founding is an equally-indeed, likely more-important issue in American historical memory. And as I mean to show below, the regnant, Wilson-less narrative of the Founding-along with the lessons drawn from it-is deeply inadequate. First, we must find this Lost Founder. Then we must revive him. PART I: WHO WAS JAMES WILSON?
