NOUN
- a major political party in the United States in the early 19th century; founded by Alexander Hamilton; favored a strong centralized government
How To Use Federalist Party In A Sentence
- The weakening of the Federalist party and its eventual demise a few years later were largely due to Hamilton's wrong-headed meddling.
- The weakening of the Federalist party and its eventual demise a few years later were largely due to Hamilton's wrong-headed meddling.
- The Federalist Party is a name that was originally applied to the advocates of ratification of the Constitution of the United States of 1787.
- The position of the Federalist Party of President John Adams was that of the English jurist William Blackstone.
- The longest serving Chief Justice in Supreme Court history, Marshall dominated the Court for over three decades a term outliving his own Federalist Party and played a significant role in the development of the American legal system. AS SEEN ON TV: JOHN MARSHALL
- You have to go back exactly two hundred years to Dolley Madison to find the First Lady who opened the doors to the White House once a week, midweek, with the idea of currying favor with members of the anti-Madison Federalist Party. Carl Sferrazza Anthony: Michelle Obama's "Wednesday Nights"....and Someone Else's Too
- Federalist Party, first appointed him secretary of State in the fall of -- in 1798, and then moved him up into the chief justiceship as a third chief justice just before he left office. America Afire
- Perhaps more pointedly, the backlash to the law had contributed to the defeat of John Adams and to the ultimate demise of the Federalist Party.
- Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton was the master politician of the Federalist Party.