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antifederalist vs federalist

federalist

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noun

  1. a member of a former political party in the United States that favored a strong centralized federal government

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At the end of the day, Madison wrote Washington that Henry and Mason “appeared to take different & awkward ground,” and “the federalists are a good deal elated by the existing prospect.”

And there are a lot of so-called federalists, people who are just generally opposed to the extension of federal power and who object, who say look, this is the same thing that we objected to when liberals did it.

William Coleman, Federalist editor of the New-York Evening Post, published an account of the incident in his paper two days later.

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