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James Iredell était un juge américain siégeant à la Cour suprême des États-Unis, Associate Justice .

Il était encore en fonction au moment de sa mort. Son fils, James Iredell, Jr., est devenu gouverneur de la Caroline du Nord.

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✵ 5. octobre 1751 – 20. octobre 1799

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James Iredell: Citations en anglais

“Had Congress undertaken to guarantee religious freedom, or any particular species of it, they would then have had a pretense to interfere in a subject they have nothing to do with. Each state, so far as the clause in question does not interfere, must be left to the operation of its own principles.”

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James Iredell

July 30, 1788, p. 172.
North Carolina's Debates, in Convention, on the adoption of the Federal Constitution (1787)

“It would be not only useless, but dangerous, to enumerate a number of rights which are not intended to be given up; because it would be implying, in the strongest manner, that every right not included in the exception might be impaired by the government without usurption; and it would be impossible to enumerate every one. Let any one make what collection or enumeration of rights he pleases, I will immediately mention twenty or thirty more rights not contained in it.”

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James Iredell

July 28, 1788, p. 150.
North Carolina's Debates, in Convention, on the adoption of the Federal Constitution (1787)

“The power of impeachment is given by this Constitution, to bring great offenders to punishment. It is calculated to bring them to punishment for crimes which it is not easy to describe, but which every one must be convinced is a high crime and misdemeanor against the government.”

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James Iredell

July 28, 1788, p. 107.
North Carolina's Debates, in Convention, on the adoption of the Federal Constitution (1787)