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

The Federalists — too elitist to appeal to most people — faded away, and totally collapsed after 1815.

In foreign policy, the Democratic-Republicans denounced the Federalists over Jay's Treaty, perceived as too favorable to Britain, while the French ambassador embarrassed the Democratic-Republicans by publicly backing them and attacking the Federalists right before the election.

" High Federalists " considered Adams too moderate and would have preferred the leadership of Alexander Hamilton instead.

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

Hamilton's Federalists ( of which Ames was one ), although they too agreed with a Republic, advocated a stronger federal government with similar powers to the British example.

As early as 1804 some New England Federalists had discussed secession from the Union if the national government became too oppressive.

Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, in particular, saw in this question, as well as in the other twelve, the influence of the Federalists — his political rivals ; yet he too agreed a proclamation was in order, though perhaps not an official one.

Cobbet's denunciation of Bache was so condemnatory that even Federalists thought Cobbet had gone too far.

Ideologically, the controversy between Jeffersonian Republicans and Federalists stemmed from a difference of principle and style.

In terms of style the Federalists distrusted the public, thought the elite should be in charge, and favored national power over state power.

After refusing to do so for some time, Adams finally released the report of the affair, resulting in a wave of passionate anti-French sentiment across the U. S. This seriously damaged the Republicans and helped the Federalists win the 1798 elections.

Randolph attempted to block Madison's nomination by running James Monroe ; thus gaining the support of Federalists, since Madison was considered Jefferson's staunch political ally.

The followers of Alexander Hamilton, were called " Federalists "; they favored a strong central government that would support the interests of national defense, commerce and industry.

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

Meanwhile, the Republicans accused Federalists of destroying republican values, not to mention political support from immigrants, with the Alien and Sedition Acts, some of which were later declared unconstitutional after their expiration by the Supreme Court ; they also accused Federalists of favoring Britain in order to promote aristocratic, anti-republican values.

While it was common knowledge that Jefferson was the candidate for president and Burr for vice-president, many Federalists were unwilling to support Jefferson, their partisan nemesis ( with one important exception, Alexander Hamilton ).

During the contest, Hamilton recommended to Federalists that they support Jefferson because he was " by far not so dangerous a man " as Burr ; in short, he would much rather have someone with wrong principles than someone devoid of any.

( The Federalists contended that a conditional ratification would be void, so the recommendation was the strongest support that the ratifying convention could give to a bill of rights short of rejecting the Constitution.

When the Federalists passed the Alien and Sedition Acts in 1798, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison secretly wrote the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, which provide a classic statement in support of states ' rights.

In 1802, Pickering and a band of Federalists, agitated at the lack of support for Federalists, attempted to gain support for the secession of New England from the Jeffersonian United States.

Franklin was put up by the Legislature for re-election in December, 1804, but Republicans at the time were divided in their support of him and Federalists did not think highly of him, and he was defeated.

Although a Democratic-Republican, he enjoyed support from the Federalists as well.

Federalists, who controlled the Massachustts legislature, attacked his statements in support of Jefferson, and he lost the election to Christopher Gore amid a complete Federalist takeover of the Massachusetts government ( even though the outgoing Jefferson administration repealed the embargo before to the election took place ).

Brief testimony by Joseph S. Clark ( President, World Federalists, USA ), Senator Alan Cranston ( D-Calif ) and Ernest Gruening ( former Senator from Alaska ) on support for S. 376.

" Hamilton's revenue-based trade policy, with its more moderate tariffs, meant that, by 1794, manufacturers had switched their support from the Federalists to the Republicans.

support for Federalists, rising influence of Jeffersonian Democrats and the diminished influence of the North due to the Louisiana Purchase.

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.

Carey ’ s passionate support for the establishment of an American Navy contributed significantly to his alliance with the Federalists upon his arrival.

The Student Federalists was an organization that existed in the United States in the 1940s and 1950s to promote U. S. support for federal world government amongst students and youth.

Meanwhile, supporters of the Federalists, even in their traditional base of support in the urban centers of coastal New England, continued to grow with discontent over party ineffectiveness.

All across the United States, voters divided for and against the Treaty and other key issues, and thus became either Federalists or Jeffersonian Republicans.

As a result, voters in New England, who often had ties to the shipping or manufacturing industries, overwhelmingly chose to send Federalists to Washington.

As time went on, the Federalists lost appeal with the average voter and were generally not equal to the tasks of party organization ; hence, they grew steadily weaker as the political triumphs of the Republican Party grew after 1800.

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.

In the 1780s after the American Revolutionary War, debate over the adoption of a new Constitution resulted in a division between Federalists, such as Alexander Hamilton who favored a strong federal government, and Anti-Federalists, such as Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry who favored a weaker federal government.

The following year, Juan Manuel de Rosas, leader of Buenos Aires Federalists, defeated Lavalle and was elected to office by the Legislature.

Later that year, King was nominated by the Federalists in the United States presidential election, 1816, but lost again.

The following year Sumner was actively promoted by the Federalists, but Adams was able to prevail by a comfortable margin.

The Federalists briefly created such jurisdiction in the Judiciary Act of 1801, but it was repealed the following year, and not restored until 1875.

The Alien and Sedition Acts were four bills passed in 1798 by the Federalists in the 5th United States Congress in the aftermath of the French Revolution and during an undeclared naval war with Britain and France, later known as the Quasi-War.

Some of this was seen by Federalists as having been caused by French and French-sympathizing immigrants.

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.

Infighting within the party and a shortage of qualified candidates, however, played against Gerry, and the Federalists scored points by complaining vocally about the partisan nature of the reforms.

First printed in March 1812, this political cartoon was drawn in reaction to the state senate electoral districts drawn by the Massachusetts legislature to favour the Democratic-Republican Party candidates of Governor Elbridge Gerry over the Federalists.

Disowned by the Federalists and not fully accepted by the Republicans, Adams used his Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard as a new base.

The Federalists made a comeback in the Northeast by attacking the embargo, which was allowed to expire just as Jefferson was leaving office.

The problems were worse due to Jefferson's and Madison's dismantling of the system built by Hamilton and the Federalists.

An indeterminate number of anti-Virginia Republicans, led by the New York delegation, objected to the caucus system along with the Federalists.

The Federalists also feared that the political power of the Atlantic seaboard states would be threatened by the new citizens of the west, bringing about a clash of western farmers with the merchants and bankers of New England.

A group of northern Federalists led by Massachusetts Senator Timothy Pickering went so far as to explore the idea of a separate northern confederacy.

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.

There was an ongoing debate in the 1780s about " the people " fighting governmental tyranny ( as described by Anti-Federalists ); or the risk of mob rule of " the people " ( as described by the Federalists ) related to the ongoing revolution in France.

One of the arguments the Federalists gave against the addition of a Bill of Rights, during the debates about ratification of the Constitution, was that a listing of rights could problematically enlarge the powers specified in Article One, Section 8 of the new Constitution by implication.

In 1788, the Virginia Ratifying Convention attempted to solve the problem that Hamilton and the Federalists had identified by proposing a constitutional amendment specifying:

Jefferson needed to have a nationwide party to counteract the Federalists, a nationwide party organized by Hamilton.

Republicans were deeply committed to the principles of republicanism, which they feared were threatened by the supposed monarchical tendencies of the Hamiltonians / Federalists.

Federalists counterattacked by claiming the Hamiltonian program had restored national prosperity, as shown in one 1792 anonymous newspaper essay:

In 1789 when James Madison proposed to insert the word " national " in the part of the Bill of Rights providing that " no religion shall be established by law ," Elbridge Gerry told Congress that the Antifederalists had objected to the injustice of that name because they favored a federal government, while the Federalists favored " a national one.

By 1792, a party division had emerged between Federalists led by Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton, who desired a stronger federal government with a leading role in the economy, and the Democratic-Republicans led by Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson and Representative James Madison of Virginia, who favored states ' rights and opposed Hamilton's economic program.