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associate justice and founding father
{{Officeholder
|name=James Iredell
|image=
|party=[[Whig]]
|spouse=
|religion=[[Episcopalian]]
|offices=
{{Officeholder/Supreme Court Justice
|role=Associate
|nominator=[[George Washington]]
|terms=February 10, 1790 – October 20, 1799
|preceded=None
|former=y
|succeeded=[[Alfred Moore]]
}}
}}
'''James Iredell''' (October 5, 1751 – October 20, 1799) was one of the original [[Associate Justice]]s of the [[Supreme Court of the United States]]. A [[Founding Father]], he was a Federalist - proponent of the [[Constitution]] when it was proposed in 1787; he received national attention for writing a rebuttal to a critique by Anti-Federalist [[George Mason]].<ref name="nc">{{cite web|url=http://www.northcarolinahistory.org/commentary/105/entry|title=James Iredell, Sr. (1751-1799)|format=HTML|language=English|work=North Carolina History Project|publisher=John Locke Foundation}}</ref> On the Supreme Court, Iredell dissented in the case [[Chisholm v. Georgia]] - maintaining that the states did not owe their origin to the federal government; his dissent would prevail in Congress with the passing of the [[Eleventh Amendment]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://law.jrank.org/pages/7786/Iredell-James.html|title=James Iredell|work=law.jrank|format=HTML|language=English}}</ref>
==References==
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{{Supreme Court|jay=y|ellsworth=y}}
|name=James Iredell
|image=
|party=[[Whig]]
|spouse=
|religion=[[Episcopalian]]
|offices=
{{Officeholder/Supreme Court Justice
|role=Associate
|nominator=[[George Washington]]
|terms=February 10, 1790 – October 20, 1799
|preceded=None
|former=y
|succeeded=[[Alfred Moore]]
}}
}}
'''James Iredell''' (October 5, 1751 – October 20, 1799) was one of the original [[Associate Justice]]s of the [[Supreme Court of the United States]]. A [[Founding Father]], he was a Federalist - proponent of the [[Constitution]] when it was proposed in 1787; he received national attention for writing a rebuttal to a critique by Anti-Federalist [[George Mason]].<ref name="nc">{{cite web|url=http://www.northcarolinahistory.org/commentary/105/entry|title=James Iredell, Sr. (1751-1799)|format=HTML|language=English|work=North Carolina History Project|publisher=John Locke Foundation}}</ref> On the Supreme Court, Iredell dissented in the case [[Chisholm v. Georgia]] - maintaining that the states did not owe their origin to the federal government; his dissent would prevail in Congress with the passing of the [[Eleventh Amendment]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://law.jrank.org/pages/7786/Iredell-James.html|title=James Iredell|work=law.jrank|format=HTML|language=English}}</ref>
==References==
<references/>
{{Supreme Court|jay=y|ellsworth=y}}