LMFAO. Are you serious? John Marshall absolutely was a founding father. I'm going to say it again...he absolutely was a founding father...and so were a lot of Federalists like George Washington, John Adams and Alexander Hamilton. And, he was very popular in his day and age and even won a congressional race in a democratic-republican district with the support of Patrick Henry no less. He was offered the Attorney General job in George Washington's administration but instead chose to go with Minister to France. He then became the Secretary of State in the John Adams administration.HitsRus;1261700 wrote:Marshall was not all that popular in his day either....the first true elitist who greatly expanded Supreme Court powers in the early republic. He was not actually a 'founding father' at least not without a few degrees of seperation. Not a signer of the Declaration of Independence, nor an original framer of the Constitution, he was in fact, a political appointee of Governeur Morris...a man who felt that the people needed to be saved from themselves.
Certainly an approprite pick of a modern day Democrat.
And, you claim he wasn't a "framer" of the constitution but he was indeed a delegate at the Virginia Convention responsible for ratifying the Constitution where he led the fight for ratification side-by-side with James Madison.
Might as well just pretend the Federalist Party never existed lol.