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William Howard Taft
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William Blackstone
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English jurist
Sir Edward Coke
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Sir Matthew Hale, detail of an oil painting after John Michael Wright; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
Sir Matthew Hale
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H.L.A. Hart
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Savigny, Friedrich Karl von
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Clarence Thomas
Clarence Thomas
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John Jay
John Jay
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David Hackett Souter
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Elena Kagan, 2012.
Elena Kagan
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Matthews, Stanley
Stanley Matthews
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Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Alan Page
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Edward Douglass White
Edward Douglass White
chief justice of United States
Robert H. Bork
Robert H. Bork
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Francis Hopkinson
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John Rutledge
John Rutledge
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Florence Ellinwood Allen
Florence Ellinwood Allen
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Eduard Gans
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