Canada's Alexander Hamilton

Macdonald secured all the four centralizing measures Alexander Hamilton had attempted to insert into the U.S. Constitution at Philadelphia in 1787--appointment of senators for life; federal appointment of state governors; the federal right to disallow state laws; and the granting of residual powers to the federal government. He also secured one centralizing authority, over "banking, incorporation of banks, and the issue of paper money," that Hamilton never even thought of.

--Richard Gwyn, John A: The Man Who Made Us; The Life and Times of John A. Macdonald (Toronto: Vintage Canada, 2008), 331.