Federalist


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a member of a former political party in the United States that favored a strong centralized federal government

an advocate of federalism

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New England Federalists: Widening the Sectional Divide in Jeffersonian America.
On the purpose of the American regime, the Federalist Farmer could speak for al 1 parties: "The happiness of the people at large must be the great object of every honest statesman." (2) Federalists and Anti-Federalists also agree that the main obstacle in the way of a stable government suited to maintaining freedom, and promoting the happiness of the citizenry, is faction; they agree, too, as James Madison famously put it in No.
PERSONALLY, POLITICALLY, AND IDEOLOGICALLY, the Judiciary Act and its cohort of exclusively Federalist circuit court judges enraged Jefferson.
For generations of political scientists, moreover, Federalist 10 was the invisible hand for political science, parallel to Adam Smith's invisible hand for economics.
According to The Federalist and (https://www.linkedin.com/in/bre-payton-49309844/) Payton's LinkedIn page , Payton graduated in 2010 from Southern California-based (http://www.freedomtoteach.org/Western_Christian_Schools_PSP/About_WCSPSP.html) Western Christian High School Private Satellite Program and in 2015 earned a journalism degree from Patrick Henry College, a small Christian college in Purcellville, Virginia.
Under the pseudonym Publius, and at a fever pitch, these three men wrote what would come to be called The Federalist Papers.
(149) The split was geographical: New York City and Westchester County just to its north elected the nineteen Federalist delegates (twenty-nine percent).
The Federalist Society's Article I Initiative seeks to address these questions, and many more.
In fairness, Madison, Hamilton, Jay, Washington, and the rest of the Federalists would be shocked by the way the Constitution they supported has been wrested and twisted, unmoored from the anchor of enumerated and limited power to which it was meant to be firmly attached.
On one occasion, Jefferson showed prominent Federalist Alexander Hamilton the busts of three men who, in his estimation, best represented his political principles.
Yes, the Federalist Marshall annoyed the Jeffersonian Republicans by insisting that the Federalist William Marbury deserved his commission to be a justice of the peace in the District of Columbia--the main issue of the case--but Marshall added that, contrary to the Judiciary Act of 1789, the Supreme Court lacked jurisdiction to order the Republican secretary of state (later president) James Madison to deliver the commission.
As political philosophy and a keystone for constitutional interpretation, The Federalist has unquestioned value.
Calling themselves the Federalist faction, the elites continually misled the public by insisting that they were committed to the primacy of the state and local control that the public cherished.
The best of their work, which found its expression in The Federalist, merits a place alongside such classics in political theory as Locke's Second Treatise, Rousseau's Second Discourse, and Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France.
Additionally, they interviewed the head of the major federalist opposition party (Preston Manning [Reform]), the Canadian ambassador in Washington (Raymond Chretien-the prime minister's nephew but also a professional career diplomat), the leader of the second separatist party (Mario Dumont), and several minor players whose positions appeared bureaucratically important but whose roles were secondary/tertiary.