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William Cushing, the Glossary

William Cushing (March 1, 1732 – September 13, 1810) was one of the original five associate justices of the United States Supreme Court; confirmed by the United States Senate on September 26, 1789, he served until his death.^[1]

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Advice and consent

Advice and consent is an English phrase frequently used in enacting formulae of bills and in other legal or constitutional contexts.

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American Academy of Arts and Sciences

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences (The Academy) is one of the oldest learned societies in the United States.

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American Revolutionary War

The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was a military conflict that was part of the broader American Revolution, in which American Patriot forces organized as the Continental Army and commanded by George Washington defeated the British Army.

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Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

An associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States is a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, other than the chief justice of the United States.

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Bachelor of Arts

A Bachelor of Arts (abbreviated B.A., BA, A.B. or AB; from the Latin baccalaureus artium, baccalaureus in artibus, or artium baccalaureus) is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate program in the liberal arts, or, in some cases, other disciplines.

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Bar (law)

In law, the bar is the legal profession as an institution.

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Barrister

A barrister is a type of lawyer in common law jurisdictions.

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Boston

Boston, officially the City of Boston, is the capital and most populous city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in the United States.

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Chief Justice of the United States

The chief justice of the United States is the chief judge of the Supreme Court of the United States and is the highest-ranking officer of the U.S. federal judiciary.

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Chisholm v. Georgia

Chisholm v. Georgia, 2 U.S. (2 Dall.) 419 (1793), is considered the first United States Supreme Court case of significance and impact.

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Commonwealth v. Jennison

Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Nathaniel Jennison was a court case in Massachusetts in 1783 that effectively abolished slavery in that state.

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Constitution of Massachusetts

The Constitution of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is the fundamental governing document of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, one of the 50 individual states that make up the United States of America.

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Constitution of the United States

The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the United States.

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Court dress

Court dress comprises the style of clothes and other attire prescribed for members of courts of law.

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David Sewall

David Sewall (October 7, 1735 – October 22, 1825) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Maine. William Cushing and David Sewall are 18th-century American judges, justices of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and United States federal judges appointed by George Washington.

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Democratic-Republican Party

The Republican Party, retroactively called the Democratic-Republican Party (a modern term created by modern historians and political scientists), and also referred to as the Jeffersonian Republican Party among other names, was an American political party founded by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison in the early 1790s that championed liberalism, republicanism, individual liberty, equal rights, decentralization, free markets, free trade, agrarianism, and sympathy with the French Revolution.

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Dresden, Maine

Dresden is a town in Lincoln County, Maine, United States, that was incorporated in 1794.

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Elizabeth Freeman

Elizabeth Freeman (1744 December 28, 1829), also known as Mumbet, was one of the first enslaved African Americans to file and win a freedom suit in Massachusetts.

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Federalist Party

The Federalist Party was a conservative and nationalist American political party and the first political party in the United States.

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Freedom suit

Freedom suits were lawsuits in the Thirteen Colonies and the United States filed by slaves against slaveholders to assert claims to freedom, often based on descent from a free maternal ancestor, or time held as a resident in a free state or territory.

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George Washington

George Washington (February 22, 1732, 1799) was an American Founding Father, military officer, and politician who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. William Cushing and George Washington are 1732 births.

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Google Books

Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.

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Governor of Massachusetts

The governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is the chief executive officer of the government of Massachusetts.

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Harvard College

Harvard College is the undergraduate college of Harvard University, a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

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Hingham, Massachusetts

Hingham is a town in metropolitan Greater Boston on the South Shore of the U.S. state of Massachusetts in northern Plymouth County.

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Increase Sumner

Increase Sumner (November 27, 1746 – June 7, 1799) was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician from Massachusetts. William Cushing and Increase Sumner are 18th-century American judges, justices of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and Massachusetts Federalists.

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J. B. Lippincott & Co.

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James Wilson (Founding Father)

James Wilson (September 14, 1742 – August 21, 1798) was a Scottish-born American Founding Father, legal scholar, jurist, and statesman who served as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1789 to 1798. William Cushing and James Wilson (Founding Father) are 18th-century American judges, justices of the Supreme Court of the United States and United States federal judges appointed by George Washington.

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John Adams

John Adams (October 30, 1735 – July 4, 1826) was an American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding Father who served as the second president of the United States from 1797 to 1801. William Cushing and John Adams are American Unitarians and Massachusetts Federalists.

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John Blair Jr.

John Blair Jr. (April 17, 1732 – August 31, 1800) was an American Founding Father, who signed the United States Constitution as a delegate from Virginia and was appointed an Associate Justice on the first U.S. Supreme Court by George Washington. William Cushing and John Blair Jr. are 1732 births, 18th-century American judges, justices of the Supreme Court of the United States and United States federal judges appointed by George Washington.

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John Cotton (minister)

John Cotton (4 December 1585 – 23 December 1652) was a clergyman in England and the American colonies, and was considered the preeminent minister and theologian of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.

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John Jay

John Jay (1745 – May 17, 1829) was an American statesman, diplomat, abolitionist, signatory of the Treaty of Paris, and a Founding Father of the United States. William Cushing and John Jay are 18th-century American judges and United States federal judges appointed by George Washington.

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John Rutledge

John Rutledge (September 17, 1739 – June 21, 1800) was an American Founding Father, politician, and jurist who served as one of the original associate justices of the Supreme Court and the second chief justice of the United States. William Cushing and John Rutledge are 18th-century American judges and United States federal judges appointed by George Washington.

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Joseph Story

Joseph Story (September 18, 1779 – September 10, 1845) was an American lawyer, jurist, and politician who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1812 to 1845. William Cushing and Joseph Story are American Unitarians and justices of the Supreme Court of the United States.

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Josiah Cotton

Josiah Cotton (1679/80–1756) was an Indian missionary, Justice of the Court of Common Pleas, Register of Deeds and Plymouth Colony civil magistrate.

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Judiciary Act of 1789

The Judiciary Act of 1789 (ch. 20) was a United States federal statute enacted on September 24, 1789, during the first session of the First United States Congress.

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List of justices of the Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest-ranking judicial body in the United States. William Cushing and List of justices of the Supreme Court of the United States are justices of the Supreme Court of the United States.

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List of nominations to the Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest ranking judicial body in the United States.

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List of United States Supreme Court cases prior to the Marshall Court

This is a partial chronological list of cases decided by the United States Supreme Court during the tenures of Chief Justices John Jay (October 19, 1789 – June 29, 1795), John Rutledge (August 12, 1795 – December 28, 1795), and Oliver Ellsworth (March 8, 1796 – December 15, 1800), respectively the Jay, Rutledge, and Ellsworth Courts.

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London

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of in.

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Massachusetts

Massachusetts (script), officially the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, is a state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States.

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Massachusetts Provincial Congress

The Massachusetts Provincial Congress (1774–1780) was a provisional government created in the Province of Massachusetts Bay early in the American Revolution.

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Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) is the highest court in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

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Nathaniel Peaslee Sargent

Nathaniel Peaslee Sargent (frequently also spelled Sargeant, November 2, 1731 – October 12, 1791) was a justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court from 1782 to 1791. William Cushing and Nathaniel Peaslee Sargent are justices of the Massachusetts Superior Court of Judicature.

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Nationalism

Nationalism is an idea and movement that holds that the nation should be congruent with the state.

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Oath of office of the president of the United States

The oath of office of the president of the United States is the oath or affirmation that the president of the United States takes upon assuming office.

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Oliver Ellsworth

Oliver Ellsworth (April 29, 1745 – November 26, 1807) was a Founding Father of the United States, attorney, jurist, politician, and diplomat. William Cushing and Oliver Ellsworth are 18th-century American judges and United States federal judges appointed by George Washington.

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Peter Oliver (loyalist)

Peter Oliver (March 26, 1713 – October 12, 1791) was Chief Justice of the Superior Court (the highest court) of the Province of Massachusetts Bay from 1772–1775. William Cushing and Peter Oliver (loyalist) are justices of the Massachusetts Superior Court of Judicature.

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President of the United States

The president of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.

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Province of Massachusetts Bay

The Province of Massachusetts Bay was a colony in New England which became one of the thirteen original states of the United States.

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Quock Walker

Quock Walker, also known as Kwaku or Quork Walker (c. 1753 – ?), was an enslaved American who sued for and won his freedom suit case in June 1781.

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Quorum

A quorum is the minimum number of members of a group necessary to constitute the group at a meeting.

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Recess appointment

In the United States, a recess appointment is an appointment by the president of a federal official when the U.S. Senate is in recess.

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Robert H. Harrison

Robert Hanson Harrison (1745 – April 2, 1790) was an American Army officer, attorney, and judge.

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Scituate, Massachusetts

Scituate is a seacoast town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States, on the South Shore, midway between Boston and Plymouth.

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Second inauguration of George Washington

The second inauguration of George Washington as president of the United States was held in the Senate Chamber of Congress Hall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Monday, March 4, 1793.

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Shays's Rebellion

Shays's Rebellion was an armed uprising in Western Massachusetts and Worcester in response to a debt crisis among the citizenry and in opposition to the state government's increased efforts to collect taxes on both individuals and their trades.

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Siege of Boston

The Siege of Boston (April 19, 1775 – March 17, 1776) was the opening phase of the American Revolutionary War.

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State law (United States)

In the United States, state law refers to the law of each separate U.S. state.

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Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) is the highest court in the federal judiciary of the United States.

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Thomas Hutchinson (governor)

Thomas Hutchinson (9 September 1711 – 3 June 1780) was an American merchant, politician, historian, and colonial administrator who repeatedly served as governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay in the years leading up to the American Revolution. William Cushing and Thomas Hutchinson (governor) are justices of the Massachusetts Superior Court of Judicature.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Cushing

Also known as Cushing, William, Justice Cushing.

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William Cushing, the Glossary

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Cushing family

Justices of the Massachusetts Superior Court of Judicature

Massachusetts Federalists

United States federal judges appointed by George Washington

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