Dinah Mayo-Bobee offers a strong defense of the New England
Federalists, as well as a thought-provoking assessment of their legacy.
Why did the
Federalist advocate as positively desirable all the things the Anti-Federalist opposed so vehemently: extent, wealth, and increased influence for the community's elites?
Jefferson's bitterness towards the judiciary lay in the quite plausible belief that
Federalist jurists had vigorously enforced the Sedition Act of 1798 in order to stifle Republican newspapers and keep him from winning the presidency.
(12) By 1791, less than four years after
Federalist 10, Madison had become Jefferson's lieutenant in the endeavor to defeat the administration of Washington and Hamilton, foremost and irretrievably on the issue of use of national bank notes as paper money.
She joined The
Federalist in April 2015 after spending over two years with Watchdog.org, a conservative website.
In closing the
Federalist essays, Hamilton pointed out that the great gains proposed by the Constitution included a means of rectifying unforeseen flaws.
Federalist New York City would plausibly split off to adhere to the Union, leaving Anti-Federalist upstate New York as a land-locked nation, much like Vermont, which would pay tribute taxes to New York City to use the Hudson River and the city's deep-water docks.
The
Federalist Society is instituting new Article I programmatic strategies through a variety of outlets: white papers, a writing contest, a podcast, a blog, and a mixture of events at our Student Chapters, Lawyers Chapters, and on Capitol Hill.
The
Federalists, who controlled the national government under our first two presidents, were centralizers with an aristocratic bent.
The charges against Chase, however, were his High
Federalist harangues, especially one bemoaning Republican "mobocracy" during a charge to a grand jury (when the justices rode circuit).
The suggestive assessment of a "dry or "turgid" style that is "not easy to read or hear" must be addressed by those looking to read The
Federalist as it was written, as deliberative rhetoric meant to persuade.
Constitution and has long encouraged "constitution worship" by American citizens who, to this day, are influenced by the
Federalists' smoke-and-mirrors campaign for ratification as though it occurred yesterday.