After reading through George Washington's papers, Marshall pronounced Hamilton "the greatest man {or one of the greatest men} that had ever appeared in the United States."31 Marshall considered Hamilton and Washington the two indispensable founders, and it therefore came as no surprise that Jefferson looked askance at the chief justice as "the Federalist serpent in the democratic Eden of our administration."32
( Ron Chernow )
[ Alexander Hamilton ]
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