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{{Officeholder
|name=Stephen Johnson Field
|image=
|party=[[Democrat]]
|spouse=Sue Virginia Field
|religion=
|offices=
{{Officeholder/Supreme Court Justice
|role=Associate
|nominator=[[Abraham Lincoln]]
|terms=March 10, 1863 – December 1, 1897
|preceded=(none)
|former=y
|succeeded=[[Joseph McKenna]]
}}
}}
'''Stephen Johnson Field''' (November 4, 1816 - April 9, 1899) was an [[Associate Justice]] on the [[Supreme Court of the United States]] for 34 years, 9 months.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Chicago-Kent School of Law|url=http://www.oyez.org/justices/stephen_j_field|work=Oyez|format=HTML|language=English|title=Stephen J Field}}</ref> He was a [[conservative]] justice - a prime advocate of the substantive due process theory - which at the time was used to protect property rights, though in a modern sense has been used by [[liberals]] as justification for the "privacy right" on which cases such as [[Griswold v. Connecticut]], [[Roe v. Wade]] and [[Casey v. Planned Parenthood]] are based.<ref name="jrank">{{cite web|url=http://law.jrank.org/pages/6875/Field-Stephen-Johnson.html|format=HTML|language=English|title=Stephen Johnson Field|work=law.jrank}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stanford.edu/group/psylawseminar/Substantive%20Due%20Process.htm|work=Stanford|title=Substantive Due Process|format=HTML|language=English}}</ref> He dissented in the ''Slaughter-House'' cases, which upheld a [[Louisiana]] law that allowed for a [[monopoly]], and also from ''Munn v. Illinois'', in which the majoriy affirmed that [[Illinois]] had the right to fix maximum storage rates charged by grain elevators and public warehouses.<ref name="jrank"/> Later, the rest of the Court would adopt Field's pro-[[free enterprise]] attitude.<ref name="jrank"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/personality/robes_field.html|format=HTML|language=English|work=PBS|title=Stephen Johnson Field}}</ref>
==References==
<references/>
{{Supreme Court|waite=y|fuller=y|chase=y|taney=y}}
|name=Stephen Johnson Field
|image=
|party=[[Democrat]]
|spouse=Sue Virginia Field
|religion=
|offices=
{{Officeholder/Supreme Court Justice
|role=Associate
|nominator=[[Abraham Lincoln]]
|terms=March 10, 1863 – December 1, 1897
|preceded=(none)
|former=y
|succeeded=[[Joseph McKenna]]
}}
}}
'''Stephen Johnson Field''' (November 4, 1816 - April 9, 1899) was an [[Associate Justice]] on the [[Supreme Court of the United States]] for 34 years, 9 months.<ref>{{cite web|publisher=Chicago-Kent School of Law|url=http://www.oyez.org/justices/stephen_j_field|work=Oyez|format=HTML|language=English|title=Stephen J Field}}</ref> He was a [[conservative]] justice - a prime advocate of the substantive due process theory - which at the time was used to protect property rights, though in a modern sense has been used by [[liberals]] as justification for the "privacy right" on which cases such as [[Griswold v. Connecticut]], [[Roe v. Wade]] and [[Casey v. Planned Parenthood]] are based.<ref name="jrank">{{cite web|url=http://law.jrank.org/pages/6875/Field-Stephen-Johnson.html|format=HTML|language=English|title=Stephen Johnson Field|work=law.jrank}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.stanford.edu/group/psylawseminar/Substantive%20Due%20Process.htm|work=Stanford|title=Substantive Due Process|format=HTML|language=English}}</ref> He dissented in the ''Slaughter-House'' cases, which upheld a [[Louisiana]] law that allowed for a [[monopoly]], and also from ''Munn v. Illinois'', in which the majoriy affirmed that [[Illinois]] had the right to fix maximum storage rates charged by grain elevators and public warehouses.<ref name="jrank"/> Later, the rest of the Court would adopt Field's pro-[[free enterprise]] attitude.<ref name="jrank"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/personality/robes_field.html|format=HTML|language=English|work=PBS|title=Stephen Johnson Field}}</ref>
==References==
<references/>
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