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James Wilson
Position: Federalist Representative of Pennsylvania =Occupation and Background= A founding father of the United States, James Wilson was a prominent lawyer and scholar as well as a leading legal theorist of his time. He became one of the first six original justices appointed by George Washington to the Supreme Court. He went on to become the first professor of law at the College of Philadelphia in 1790. =Constitutional Convention= Wilson is said to have been one of the most prominent figures in the Constitutional Convention, along with James Madison. He was a strong nationalist, and he proved able to defend his positions, basic to the constitution and to Congress as a whole, with firm eloquence. He assisted in the original drafting of the United States constitution through the Committee of Detail in 1787. Wilson also proposed the three-fifths compromise during the Convention, which classified black slaves as three-fifths of a person. =Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (1789-1798)= Wilson took office in 1789, appointed by George Washington. He became known as one of the first American legal philosophers during his term. He only heard a total of nine cases before his apprehensive death in 1798. =Constitution Arguments= As a federalist, James Wilson was an advocate of the ratification of the United States Constitution. He believed that the newly formed union should break away from original ways of thinking and create new pathways for future generations, via a unified nation in which the government has majority of the power.