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@GreenFire @HistoPol He is the THIRD Chief Justice to attempt to subvert Democracy. Field, and Chief Justice Melville Fuller. As a delegate to Illinois’s constitutional convention, he voted to prohibit black men and women from settling in the state or voting in its elections. He opposed the Emancipation Proclamation & backed a constitutional amendment preventing congressional interference with slavery. Fuller became an outspoken proponent of anti-government views similar to Field’s