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Wythe, George (sh) and ethico- (iou)


Wythe, George (sh)




born 1726, Elizabeth City county, Va.
died June 8, 1806, Richmond, Va., U.S.

U.S. jurist and statesman.

Admitted to the bar in 1746, he was a member (1754-55, 1758-68) and clerk (1769-75) of the Virginia House of Burgesses. He practiced law in Williamsburg, Va., where he taught Thomas Jefferson. At the College of William and Mary (1779-89) he became the first professor of law in the U.S.; among his pupils was John Marshall. A delegate to the Continental Congress, he signed the Declaration of Independence. In 1776 he was appointed, with Jefferson and two others, to revise the laws of Virginia. As a chancery judge (1778-1806), he asserted, in Commonwealth v. Caton (1782), the power of courts to refuse to enforce unconstitutional laws. He was a member of the Constitutional Convention (1787) and of the Virginia convention (1788) that ratified the Constitution of the United States.


ethico- (iou)



ethico- combining form. E18.
[Repr. Greek ethiko- combining form of ethikos: see ETHIC adjective, -O-.]
Forming compound adjectives with the sense 'ethical and ', as in ethico-religious, ethico-social, etc.