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Federalist party

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Federalist party in U.S. history, the political faction that favored a strong federal government. Origins and Members In the later years of the Articles of Confederation there was much agitation for a stronger federal union, which was crowned with success when the Constitutional Convention drew up the Constitution of the United States. The men who favored the strong union and who fought for the adoption of the Constitution by the various states were called Federalists, a term made famous in that meaning by the Federalist Papers (see Federalist, The ) of Alexander Hamilton, James... Read more
Federalist Party
Federalist Party. By 1783 critics of the Articles...the organization of the embryonic Federalist party through the use of patronage. Although...Jefferson as president in 1800 ended Federalist rule, and the party never recovered control of the national... Read more
Federalist Party
...adopted by the opposition Democratic Party, and the Federalist Party disappeared. Notable Federalists included John Marshall...Rufus King , Timothy Pickering , and Charles Pinckney . Federalist Party Federalist Party Federalist Party Read more

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