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'''Nathan Clifford''' (August 18, 1803 – July 25, 1881) was an [[Attorney General of the United States]] and an [[Associate Justice]] of the [[Supreme Court of the United States]]. He was a states-rights Democrat in the mold of [[Andrew Jackson]] who served on a Court of Republicans; as a result, many of his opinions were dissents.<ref name="jrank">{{cite web|url=http://law.jrank.org/pages/5294/Clifford-Nathan.html|title=Nathan Clifford|language=English|work=law.jrank}}</ref>  He wan an anti-abolishionist, who upheld a fugitive slave law in ''Ableman v. Booth''. Chief Justice [[Morrison Waite]], who Clifford briefly served with, once declared that he assigned Clifford only one of the 66 significant constitutional cases between 1874 and 1881.<ref name="jrank"/>
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'''Nathan Clifford''' (August 18, 1803 – July 25, 1881) was an [[Attorney General of the United States]] and an [[Associate Justice]] of the [[Supreme Court of the United States]]. He was a states-rights Democrat in the mold of [[Andrew Jackson]] who served on a Court of Republicans; as a result, many of his opinions were dissents.<ref name="jrank">{{cite web|url=http://law.jrank.org/pages/5294/Clifford-Nathan.html|title=Nathan Clifford|language=English|work=law.jrank}}</ref>  He was an anti-abolishionist, who upheld a fugitive slave law in ''Ableman v. Booth''. Chief Justice [[Morrison Waite]], who Clifford briefly served with, once declared that he assigned Clifford only one of the 66 significant constitutional cases between 1874 and 1881.<ref name="jrank"/>
    
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