Boy, Was He Wrong!

Alexander Hamilton was an extraordinarily talented and able individual but he also was wrong about a good many things, including his support of centralized banking and financial powers. Few of his errors matched this gem:


Whoever attentively considers the different departments of power must perceive, that, in a government in which they are separated from each other, the judiciary, from the nature of its functions, will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the Constitution; because it will be least in a capacity to annoy or injure them.

. . . Alexander Hamilton

Federalist No. 78, 1788