He so vigorously supported Alexander Hamilton's reports on public credit, including the assumption of state debts, and supported Hamilton's new Bank of the United States, that he was considered a leading champion by the Federalists.

The Federalists strongly opposed the purchase, favoring close relations with Britain over closer ties to Napoleon, and were concerned that the United States had paid a large sum of money just to declare war on Spain.

Culturally conservative Federalists denounced the work as radical — too inclusive in its lexicon and even bordering on vulgar.

Federalists spread rumors that the Republicans were radicals who would ruin the country ( based on the Republican support for the French Revolution ).

This may have had some unintended consequences in Massachusetts, where the makeup of the delegation to the House of Representatives changed from 12 Federalists and 2 Republicans to 8 Federalists and 6 Republicans, perhaps the result of backlash on the part of the electorate.

Furthermore, President Madison had adopted such Federalist policies as a national bank and protective tariffs, which would give the Federalists few issues to campaign on.

" Of the Federalists, he continued, " But this opens with a vast accession of strength from their younger recruits, who, having nothing in them of the feelings or principles of ' 76, now look to a single and splendid government of an aristocracy, founded on banking institutions, and moneyed incorporations under the guise and cloak of their favored branches of manufactures, commerce and navigation, riding and ruling over the plundered ploughman and beggared yeomanry.

American public opinion was outraged when Madison published the demands ; even the Federalists were now willing to fight on.

Culturally conservative Federalists denounced the work as radical — too inclusive in its lexicon and even bordering on vulgar.

The Jay Treaty: Political Background of Founding Fathers ( 1970 ) ( ISBN 0-520-01573-8 ) Focusing on the domestic and ideological aspects, Combs dislikes Hamilton's quest for national power and a " heroic state " dominating the Western Hemisphere, but concludes the Federalists " followed the proper policy " because the treaty preserved peace with Britain.

Federalists opposed the expansion, but Jeffersonians hailed the opportunity to create millions of new farms to expand the domain of land-owning yeomen ; the ownership would strengthen the ideal republican society, based on agriculture ( not commerce ), governed lightly, and promoting self-reliance and virtue, as well as form the political base for Jeffersonian Democracy.

In 1795, Floyd ran for Lieutenant Governor of New York with Robert Yates on the Democratic-Republican ticket, but they were defeated by Federalists John Jay and Stephen Van Rensselaer.

The Francophone Democratic Federalists (, until January 2010 Democratic Front of the Francophones, ; FDF ), is a Francophone political party based in Brussels, Belgium founded on 11 May 1964.

The struggle between the Federalists ( who favored a loose confederation of provinces based on rural conservatism ) and the Unitarians ( pro-liberalism and advocates of a strong central government that would encourage European immigration ), set the tone for Argentine literature of the time.

Federalists in this period focused on amendments to the United Nations Charter as a way forward.

Federalists proposed a number of new institutions such as a commission on sustainable development, an international development authority, a standing peacekeeping corps and an international criminal court.

He served as President of the United World Federalists in 1970-1976, and his thinking of this period is seen in his testimony before the Committee on Foreign Affairs in the U. S. House of Representatives on February 4, 1975 concerning " The United Nations in the 1970s: Recommendations for U. S. Policy ".

The nationalist majority, soon to be called “ Federalists ”, put forth the Virginia Plan, a consolidated government based on proportional representation among the states by population.

For example, in 1798, to pay for the rapidly expanding army and navy, the Federalists had enacted a new tax on houses, land and slaves, affecting every property owner in the country.

A capacity for hard work and his innate good humor made him invaluable to the Federalists as they worked out the many political compromises necessary for consensus on the new instrument of government.

He opposed the policies of the Federalists under Alexander Hamilton because he believed they had sacrificed the interests of westerners and had sought to force their policies on the opposition.

As result of this unrest on October 17 Nevrokop was occupied by forces of IMRO, who banished the Federalists, but with no further serious consequences.

Exaltation replaced the bitter political divisions between Federalists and Republicans, the North and South, and the East coast cities and settlers on the western frontier.

Madison asked Congress for a declaration of war, which was passed along sectional and party lines, with intense opposition from the Federalists and the Northeast, where the economy had suffered during Jefferson's trade embargo.

The Federalists did not even name a candidate, though Rufus King of New York did run in opposition to Monroe under the Federalist banner.

The collapse of the Federalists left Monroe with no organized opposition at the end of his first term, and he ran for reelection unopposed, the only president other than Washington to do so.

In one such letter Morse wrote, " I assert that the Federalists in the Northern States have done more injury to their country by their violent opposition measures than a French alliance could.

The chief political issues included opposition to the tax imposed by Congress to pay for the mobilization of the new army and the navy in the Quasi-War against France in 1798, and the Alien and Sedition Acts, by which Federalists were trying to stifle dissent, especially by Republican newspaper editors.

Adams was attacked by both the opposition Republicans and a group of so called " High Federalists " aligned with Alexander Hamilton.

The Federalists found themselves discredited by their opposition to the war and secessionist rhetoric from New England.

In 1789, Livingston joined the Jeffersonian Republicans ( later known as the Democratic-Republicans ), in opposition to his former colleagues John Jay and Alexander Hamilton who founded the Federalists.

However, the ideals of states ' rights and a weaker federal government were in many ways absorbed by the growth of a new party, the Republican or Democratic-Republican Party, which eventually assumed the role of loyal opposition to the Federalists.

As the Federalists moved to amend the Articles, eventually leading to the Constitutional Convention, they applied the term anti-federalist to their opposition.

In opposition to them were the Federalists, who were mainly based in rural areas and tended to reject European mores.

At the Hartford Convention of 1814-15, New England Federalists voiced opposition to President Madison's war, and discussed secession from the Union.

* During " Era of Good Feelings " the Democratic Republican Party dominated with no effective opposition from the Federalists, allowing James Monroe to run unopposed in the 1820 presidential election.

At the time it was quite common for Federalists to cite religious reasons for going to war against France ; as well as for silencing the opposition.

Historian Sean Wilentz noted that in recent times it has become popular to link the Federalists ' antiwar platform to a humanitarian opposition to slavery.

In their assaults on the Federalists ' national agenda, Old Republicans perfected a language of opposition that provided the template for almost all future critiques of federal power: fear of centralized power, burdening taxpayers, taxing one locale for the benefit of another, creating self-perpetuating bureaucracies, distant governments undermining local authority, and subsidizing the schemes of the wealthy at public expense.

Alexander Hamilton and the extreme Federalists attacked Adams for his persistence for peace with France, his opposition to building an army, and his failure to enforce the Alien & Sedition Acts.

Jefferson, who disagreed with many of the president's policies and would later lead the Democratic-Republicans in opposition to many Federalist policies, joined his political rival Hamilton, the leader of the Federalists.

In the battle over the ratification of the United States Constitution in 1787 – 1788, Governor George Clinton in Albany, wishing to preserve his independent power, led the local Anti-Federalists in opposition, with support for the Constitution coming from Alexander Hamilton and the Federalists, largely urbanites who saw opportunity in a stronger national union, and famously published as their manifesto the Federalist Papers in New York City newspapers.

The " Old Republicans ," led by John Randolph of Roanoke, refused to form a coalition with the Federalists and instead set up a separate opposition, since the main Republican leaders ( notably James Madison, Albert Gallatin, James Monroe, John C. Calhoun and Henry Clay ) had in effect adopted Federalist principles by chartering the Second Bank of the United States, promoting internal improvements for transportation, raising tariffs to protect factories, and promoting a strong army and navy after the failures of the War of 1812.

President John Adams, a Federalist elected two years prior in the election of 1796, remained popular during a time of national economic growth, and the Federalists made a modest gain of three seats at the expense of the opposition Democratic-Republicans, the party of Vice President and future President Thomas Jefferson, resulting in further Federalist control of the House, 60-46 seats.