The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People out of the grants of power made to Congress.

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He became an associate justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court in 1852 and during the administration of President Franklin Pierce from March 7 1853 until March 3 1857 was 23rd Attorney General of the United States. Grant for the United States before the Geneva Tribunal of Arbitration on the Alabama claims. He did not see combat during this conflict and entered Mexico City with his reserve battalion several months after that city had been pacified.

Congressman from Massachusetts and Attorney General under President Franklin Pierce. Caleb Cushing (January 17 1800 – January 2 1879) was an American diplomat who served as a U.