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Monday, April 30, 2012
John Jay as the most conservative of the Founding Fathers
John M. Pafford makes that argument in this book review posted over at The Imaginative Conservative: John Jay: Man of Order, Justice, Freedom. As Pafford points out, Jay's work and contribution to the Founding were substantial, and he deserves far more attention than he usually gets in discussions of the Founding period. Personally, I would rank Jay alongside Samuel Adams and Fisher Ames as the most overlooked of the Founders.
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indeed!~-he gave up his position as Chief Justice because he knew that the Constitution placed the Supreme Court as the least of the 3 branches- NOW- IT is regarded as the most 'supreme' of the three!
Grrrrrrr
Carol-CS
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