He turned out to be very wise, often much wiser than Jefferson, much more feet-on-the-ground.
The Founding Fathers were men. It's special that America's national myth is a group of falliable men coming together and compromising their individual visions for the greater good. But they were all men, each with a unique vision. Anyone who conjures these dead and buried men and their dead and buried opinions is also conjuring you. These men all diagreed, sometimes violently. The Founding Fathers intended nothing more than democratic compromise from our nation.
