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    federalist


    1. Co-author of the Federalist Papers, and America"s first Secretary of the Treasury


    2. That said, I disagree wholeheartedly with Alexander Hamilton"s claim in the Federalist Papers that the judiciary would be the least dangerous branch


    3. " Thus, who will guard the guards? Recall that in Federalist 51, Madison averred that if men were angels, there would be no need for 132


    4. The Federalist Papers, a magnificent defense of the proposed Constitution written in 1788 as a series of newspaper articles by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John Jay is undoubtedly the best place to start


    5. As he informs us in Federalist No


    6. Alexander Hamilton remarked in the Federalist Papers that ―Power is neither too great nor too small; however ―limited or


    7. Most of New England, the Federalist Party, and some Democrats opposed the War of 1812, and Jefferson successfully avoided war with Britain his entire time in office


    8. Not one Federalist voted for the war


    9. their statements in the Federalist Papers


    10. No one can argue with me on this point, unless they have read the Federalist Papers and studied these men and their lives

    11. Madison studied practically every government in history, as he and Hamilton wrote the rationale for this new one in the form of the Federalist Papers


    12. That included making dozens of “midnight appointments” to fill as many administrative and judicial posts in the government as possible with Federalist sympathizers before the Republicans took over


    13. Chief Justice Marshall, a Federalist himself, in effect single handedly amended the Constitution to serve the Federalist purpose of judicial supremacy


    14. In Anglo-American culture this extended at least from Shakespeare and Milton to the Federalist Papers, and the beautifully crafted histories of Winston Churchill or the novels of William Faulkner


    15. We must address the laxity of accurate education in the public school system, which has gradually softened the emphasis on the importance of the correct history of the American Republic, its Constitution and Bill of Rights, the Federalist Papers, and the history of Western Civilization in general


    16. killed Hamilton, a beloved founding-father of the Federalist Party


    17. Look at the Federalist Papers to see


    18. After one of these pairings (Democratic-Republican Thomas Jefferson serving under Federalist John Adams), Congress decided a change was needed


    19. I am just as tired now of maintaining idlers, and dissolute idlers too, out of the proceeds of my property as I was when I first came into Congress—and I care not whether it be under the Administration of a President called Republican, or of a man called a Federalist


    20. If gentlemen would refer to a number of papers, drawn up by an association of gentlemen, at that time, and published under the title of "The Federalist," they would find various arguments used to induce the Legislature to make the representation full; so that, at that period, no apprehensions had existed of the Representatives becoming too numerous

    21. He thought it due to our country, and to ourselves, that whatever abuses exist, without stopping to inquire whether the sufferer be a Catholic or a Protestant, a Federalist, a Democrat, or a monarchy man, to redress the wrong


    22. Look back on the principle adopted by the friends of that gentleman—I wish I could say who were his friends—I do not call the honest federalist, who is willing to support his country's rights, his friend—even in England, the nation from which he talks of receiving his religion and morality, and I might add, his ideas of our rights—even in that country they do not prevent enlistment of minors—that is, they are not discharged on the ground of minority


    23. I fear the sentiments contained in his farewell address to the nation are getting out of fashion with those who claim to be his exclusive followers; or why do we hear within these walls, the foundation of which he laid for union, union, union; disunion spoken of, "peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must;" and why listen to idle and unfounded tales about foreign influence, which can never injure us as long as we stick to the old maxim—united we stand, divided we fall? Straws show which way the wind blows! What has become of the newspaper called the Washington Federalist? The name was, I have understood, changed to the Independent American; out of that, I believe, was raised the Federal Republican—all good names; but why lose the name of Washington to a paper supported by his exclusive followers? And this is the first time to my recollection that they have adopted Republican in their calendar


    24. If we may judge from the public prints, Commodore Rodgers is no longer one, though he, like the others, is understood to be a Federalist; but these men will never say, "peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must


    25. " I would really thank any gentleman to tell me what is now meant by the party name, Federalist


    26. Let any man lay his finger upon a vote in which, since I have had the honor (if, indeed, it be an honor) of a seat in this House, I have departed from those principles, and I will consent that, quoad hoc, I am a Federalist


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    "federalist" definitions

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


    an advocate of federalism