IMHO Hamilton was already thinking outside bounds of the Constitution before there was one! He and some others never wanted a republic in the first place and never stopped in their efforts to undermine that result.
IMO Hamilton understood the Constitution probably better than anyone. He knew it was a Trojan Horse--if you happened to be under the misguided notion that the Constitution contained "few and defined" powers. He knew it would provide the massive centralization of power he favored. He knew it would obliterate the state governments' power (he despised them anyway.) In the first years under the system, he ran circles around Madison and Jefferson. They look like utter fools next to Hamilton. For all the talk of Madison and Jefferson, it's Hamilton who truly left his mark on this nation. Madison and Jefferson are monuments to what never was.
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