“When a man unprincipled in private life, desperate in his fortune, bold in his temper . . . despotic in his ordinary demeanour - known to have scoffed in private at the principles of liberty - when such a man is seen to mount the hobby horse of popularity - to join in the cry
of danger to liberty — to take every opportunity of embarrassing the General Government & bringing it under suspicion — to flatter and fall in with all the non sense of the zealots of the day
It may justly be suspected that his object is to throw things into confusion that he may ‘ride the storm and direct the whirlwind.” - Alexander Hamilton arguing for including impeachment in the Constitution.
