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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Federalists"”.
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Prudence and decorum and the invention of american democracy: an examination of the ratification debates for the federal constitution in 1787-88
… ratification debates. In addition, Massachusetts federalists had to overcome objections to the proposed constitution based on the system of representation, as well as the absence of a Bill of Rights. Federalists Challenged these views, and established a method of ratification that garnered the …
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The framers, The Bill of Rights, and the Ninth Amendment
… Also explored are the debates between the Federalists and Anti-Federalists on the need for a bill of rights, and how the Ninth Amendment could resolve this conflict.
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Unraveling Anti-Federalist Ideology through a Conceptual Framework of Natural Rights
… author argues that the one thing that all Anti-Federalists mutually agreed upon was the existence of inalienable natural rights including the natural right to self-ownership and the ownership of legitimately gained property. The Anti-Federalists worried that the Constitution contained unsuitable …
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Tending the Fire of Service: An Empirical Study of Strategies for Integrating Volunteer and Career Firefighters
… it finds that the founding debate between the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists still has influence on these managing strategies. Local managers are able to blend these distinct visions of government. Each of these influences is described as they were manifested in the study interviews and …
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The Jay Treaty and the Federalist Approach to Anglo-American Relations
… Community in 1941. The cleavage between the Federalists and the Republicans over the Treaty was one of the first partisan foreign policy debates under the government of the Constitution, and it was often repeated, as in 1919 between Henry Cabot lodge and Woodrow Wilson over the entry of the …
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Necessary to the Security of a Free State: Federalism and the Original Meaning of the Second Amendment
… ratification debates and the Bill of Rights. Antifederalists opposed any expansion of national authority over military power, fearing it would create a monster willing and able to destroy the people's rights. Federalists argued that the people's militia and America's federalist structure would …
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Double Characters: The Making of American Nationalism in Kentucky, 1792--1833
… of Thomas Jefferson, both Republicans and Federalists accepted federal authority and worked to define the Union as the embodiment of the nation. Advocates of the War of 1812 saw it as a means of building a national character, but its opponents, prominent among them elite women, asserted …
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Strategic Mourning: America's Journey After the Death of George Washington
… formed in response to these differences, with Federalists promoting a strong central government and Democratic Republicans favoring more power for the citizenry, and each party disagreeing about what it meant to be an American. When Washington died unexpectedly, Americans had to quickly …
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John Johns Trigg, Congressman
… temper, since unable to smother, the fire of the Federalists. During President Jefferson's first term in office, 1801-1805, John Trigg could be described as a "regular republican." He voted on all issues as a stanch supporter of the new Republican administration. When time came to undo the …
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CREATION OF AN AMERICAN STATE: POLITICS IN NORTH CAROLINA, 1765 - 1789
… changes. The ensuing struggle between Carolina's Federalists and Anti-Federalists dominated the years between 1787 and 1789. Ultimately, the forces supporting the Philadelphia constitution won, and that victory proved the last hurrah of the state conservatives. The political confrontations which …
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Anglo-American Relations, 1789-1794
… Alexander Hamilton, and supported by most of the Federalists, was on the whole the one best suited to the strengths and weaknesses, internal and external, of the United States during this early stage in its development. Viewed in a contemporary setting, a policy that sought to avoid war and retain …
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From Partisan Banking to Open Access - A Study on the Emergence of Free Banking in Early Nineteenth Century Massachusetts
… showing how the majority political party, the Federalists, held a monopoly on banks by dominating the state legislature in charge of issuing charters for new banks, effectively prohibiting members of the opposing political party, the Democratic- Republicans, from opening banks. Political …
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The Political Ideology of Connecticut's Standing Order
Many historians of religion and politics in the early republic period fail to fully examine the importance of the debate between the Connecticut’s Standing Order and religious dissenters concerning the necessity of a religious establishment in America. Relying on sermons, newspaper accounts, this …