The Federalists in the War of 1812 The Copperheads. Share full article. April 9, 1864. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from April 9, 1864, Page 4 Buy ...

The Federalists' stated arguments seemed to chiefly be malicious falsehoods about the government are dangerous and valueless and deserve to be suppressed, the Sedition Act had actually been ...

The Federalists' suppression of free speech under the Alien and Sedition Acts, and the assumption of closer relations with Britain instead of France, inflamed Jeffersonian Republicans.

The presidential election of 1800 was a crisis of the first order, featuring extreme polarization, wild accusations, and name-calling—the Federalist John Adams was labeled “hermaphroditical ...

The Anti-Federalists did not believe that the country could grow and still remain republican, a proposition rebutted in Madison’s classic argument in The Federalist No. 10.

The Federalists, the dominant national political party of the day, wanted to celebrate. And in Rhode Island, where the Constitution had not yet been ratified, ...

Anti-Federalists felt a national government would not protect people far away from the Capitol; so they proposed 12 amendments to the Constitution, ten of which were ratified as the Bill of Rights.

The Federalists agreed to a bill, to obtain the support of the Anti-Federalists, who supported a more decentralized government. They generally lived at a distance from the central power of our new ...

It was Madison’s willingness to accommodate the demands of the opposition — such as drafting the Bill of Rights to address the concerns of Anti-Federalists, thus exploring a middle path ...

Euro-federalists financed by US spy chiefs. By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in Brussels 19 September 2000 • 12:00am . DECLASSIFIED American government documents show that the US intelligence ...

In Quebec, separatists see the federalists as a hockey team that uses the “trap technique” to stop or break its opponent’s progress. But their motivation is running high.