Federalists

Who were the federalists and anti-federalists at the time of independence, and who ultimately carried the day?

Furtwangler, 22. Only 19 Federalists were elected to New York's ratification convention, compared to the Anti-Federalists' 46 delegates.

Hamilton and Adams intensely disliked one another, and the Federalists split between supporters of Hamilton ("High Federalists") and supporters of Adams.

In the elections of 1798 the Federalists did very well, but this issue started hurting the Federalists in 1799.

In Virginia, the struggle in 1788 over the ratification of the proposed Constitution involved more than a simple clash between federalists and anti-federalists.

Manning J. Dauer, The Adams Federalists, chapter 2. Catholics in Maryland were generally Federalists.

Many Federalists, who had previously opposed a Bill of Rights, now supported the Bill as a means of silencing the Anti-Federalists' most effective criticism.

Seizing an opportunity to deny Jefferson the presidency, most Federalists voted for Burr, giving Burr six of the eight states controlled by Federalists.

The Federalists found out about it (even the French minister to the United States knew), and northern Federalists voted for Adams but not for Pinckney, in sufficient numbers that Pinckney came in third and Jefferson became Vice President.

Americans were sharply divided in 1800 between big government Federalists and small government Jeffersonians.

American diplomats, he feared, would conspire with EU-federalists to drum up a faux dream of European unity with the ultimate goal of undermining French grandeur.

He said they had failed to be good federalists by "not playing ball when a Labor mate in Victoria was in trouble".

The anti-federalists have now been proved right three times.

To save the nation, Federalists would wield the state against foreign outsiders and domestic opponents, lest they poison the republic with their radicalism.

The polls show that these committed European federalists will pick up an extra 35 to 40 seats.

The system was designed to fail and the Anti-Federalists saw it clear.

Still, most obediently voted for war, fearing the hypernationalism of their constituents and remembering the drubbing Federalists had taken for opposing the War of 1812.

Those Federalists know a real conservative when they see one.

Two hundred and twenty-six years ago, the Federalists were having trouble getting the states to ratify the new Constitution of the United States.

Aaron Burr had won New York for Jefferson in May; now Hamilton proposed a rerun of the election under different rules—with carefully drawn districts and each choosing an elector—such that the Federalists would split the electoral vote of New York.