Federalist Party


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Synonyms for Federalist Party

a major political party in the United States in the early 19th century

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After the Federalist Party collapsed in New York after 1801, most Federalists flocked to his banner.
Marshall, a last survivor of the Federalist Party, was giving the Jeffersonians the enumerated power limitation while simultaneously in the Court's holding allowing the bank that was the first program-target of the enumerated power doctrine.
But they later became adversaries, parting ways politically -- Adams becoming the head of the Federalist Party, Jefferson founding the opposition Democratic-Republican Party -- and it was Jefferson who defeated Adams in his attempt to win re-election as president in 1800.
The newspaper Le Soleil reported that for the first time since the Bloc Quebecois was founded the FTQ is prepared to recommend that its members support a federalist party in Ottawa: "In Canada as a whole the FTQ envisions strategic voting in about 60 ridings, two thirds of which are located in Ontario.
On the American side, and paying homage to our Founding Fathers of the Federalist Party, The Federalist's Dueling Pistols presents a daring blend of Zinfandel and Syrah.
The "independent expenditures" of the 1790s "Democratic Societies" and their partisan allies in the press destroyed the Federalist Party entirely.
Taylor's forte is his analysis and interpretation of the political scene on both sides of our border and how the split between the goals of the Federalist Party and Jefferson's Republicans affected the outcome of the War of 1812.
The Federalist Party of France announced, on 4 September, that it intends to present a European candidate for the 2012 French presidential election.
The question would arise, however, whether the BQ had lost the support of "soft nationalists" who no longer believe in Quebec sovereignty and are willing to try a sympathetic federalist party (NDP) for prospectively greater leverage in Ottawa.
A federalist party led by Premier Jean Charest currently holds a majority in the provincial legislature, but separatists are hoping to regain power in a ballot expected at the latest in 2013 as support for Charest dwindles.
In the aftermath of the war, the Federalist party lost all credibility, Jeffersonian republicanism was enshrined as crucial to America and there was a new focus on domestic industrial production, rather than on importing goods from Britain.
It seems that the PPP's Sindhi support is no guarantee against this sort of incident, because the Sindhi nationalists have always criticised the PPP as a federalist party, and therefore willing to barter away the rights of the province.
The authors portray the supremely opinionated and ambitious Adams as the Captain of the Titanic, bitterly trying to save what he can of the Federalist party's twelve-year monopoly on federal power while doling out patronage appointments to political loyalists.
Not only has the federal government managed to make itself largely irrelevant to ordinary people's lives, but there is only one real federalist party left in Quebec and it's only a matter of time before it is replaced by the Parti Quebecois led by the canny Pauline Marois.
The panellists for the week have included Peter Matjasic, secretary general of the European Federalist Party, and Joan Porter, community engagement officer for the community justice centre.