To: GOPcapitalist
You can disgree with his contemporaries if you like, I am merely reflecting their views. His scholarship was exemplary and his courtroom presence electric. Kent is an excellent source for the facts about Hamilton as a lawyer.
Blackstone's scholarship has formed the basic legal education for lawyers for two hundred plus years. His Commentaries are a teaching tool without par.
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09/16/2003 10:56:25 AM PDT by
justshutupandtakeit
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To: justshutupandtakeit
I am simply disagreeing with your analysis of Hamilton. You treat him as if he were the greatest thing to ever grace a courtroom in America and treat any interpretation of him that suggests he was anything less than the legal deity you make him out to be as if it were a blasphemy upon his reputation.
I am simply reigning in your sillyness with a dose of reality - a reality that concedes Hamilton was a good and skilled lawyer yet does not accept his assignment into the realm of a platonic form. For most people this would be a perfectly agreeable thing. It is perfectly okay and admirable to be good and recognized yet to also fall short of the elusive "greatest ever" status. As far as all star American lawyers go, he was a Carlton Fiske or a Joe Morgan or maybe even a Yogi Berra. But he was no Babe Ruth.
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