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− | '''John McLean''' was an [[Associate Justice|associate justice]] of the [[Supreme Court of the United States]]. McLean notably dissented from ''[[Dred Scott v. Sanford]]''. McLean wrote an important majority opinion concerning [[public domain]] in ''Wheaton v. Peters''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://law.jrank.org/pages/8514/McLean-John.html | + | '''John McLean''' was an [[Associate Justice|associate justice]] of the [[Supreme Court of the United States]]. McLean notably dissented from ''[[Dred Scott v. Sanford]]''. McLean wrote an important majority opinion concerning [[public domain]] in ''Wheaton v. Peters''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://law.jrank.org/pages/8514/McLean-John.html|title=John McLean|language=English|work=law.jrank}}</ref> He served on the Court for 32 years. |
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− | + | *“In the [Dred Scott v. Sanford] argument, it was said that a colored citizen would not be an agreeable member of society. This is more a matter of taste than law ... [for] under the late treaty with [[Mexico]] we made citizens of all grades, combinations and colors.” | |
+ | *"For many years, my hope for the perpetuity of our institutions has rested upon Bible morality and the general dissemination of Christian principles. This is an element which did not exist in the ancient republics. It is a basis on which free governments may be maintained through all time. . . . Free government is not a self-moving machine. . . . Our mission of freedom is not carried out by brute force, by canon law, or any other law except the moral law and those Christian principles which are found in the Scriptures."<ref>B. F. Morris, ''[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433081791935&view=1up&seq=645 Christian Life and Character of the Civil Institutions of the United States, Developed in the Official and Historical Annals of the Republic]'' (Philadelphia: George W. Childs, 1864), p. 639.</ref> | ||
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John McLean | |
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Former Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court From: March 7, 1829 – April 4, 1861 | |
Nominator | Andrew Jackson |
Predecessor | Robert Trimble |
Successor | Noah Haynes Swayne |
6th United States Postmaster General From: June 26, 1823 – March 4, 1829 | |
Predecessor | Return J. Meigs, Jr. |
Successor | William T. Barry |
Information | |
Party | Jeffersonian Republican, Jacksonian, National Republican, Anti-Masonic, Republican |
Spouse(s) | Rebecca E. Edwards McLean Sarah Bella Ludlow Garrard McLean |
Religion | Methodist |
John McLean was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. McLean notably dissented from Dred Scott v. Sanford. McLean wrote an important majority opinion concerning public domain in Wheaton v. Peters.[1] He served on the Court for 32 years.
Quotes
- “In the [Dred Scott v. Sanford] argument, it was said that a colored citizen would not be an agreeable member of society. This is more a matter of taste than law ... [for] under the late treaty with Mexico we made citizens of all grades, combinations and colors.”
- "For many years, my hope for the perpetuity of our institutions has rested upon Bible morality and the general dissemination of Christian principles. This is an element which did not exist in the ancient republics. It is a basis on which free governments may be maintained through all time. . . . Free government is not a self-moving machine. . . . Our mission of freedom is not carried out by brute force, by canon law, or any other law except the moral law and those Christian principles which are found in the Scriptures."[2]
References
- ↑ John McLean (English). law.jrank.
- ↑ B. F. Morris, Christian Life and Character of the Civil Institutions of the United States, Developed in the Official and Historical Annals of the Republic (Philadelphia: George W. Childs, 1864), p. 639.