Whatever their motivations,
Federalists injected a number of antislavery arguments into the national political discourse, from which they could be appropriated and elaborated by later antislavery activists.
First, on the basis of their reading of history and their assessment of the European powers' interests in the new world,
Federalists perceived a danger to the American colonies the Anti-Federalist did not.
Jefferson's bitterness towards the judiciary lay in the quite plausible belief that
Federalist jurists had vigorously enforced the Sedition Act of 1798 in order to stifle Republican newspapers and keep him from winning the presidency.
(21.) See, e.g., Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gallatin (June 6, 1817), in WTJ, supra note 20, at 70, 71-72 (saying that the tenet that Congress has only the power to provide for enumerated powers, and not for the general welfare," is almost the only landmark which now divides the
federalists from the republicans").
Nation-wide, the direct tax issue separated Anti-Federalists from
Federalists absolutely: no Anti-Federalist could concede the direct tax to the federal government, and no
Federalist could let go of it.
On one occasion, Jefferson showed prominent
Federalist Alexander Hamilton the busts of three men who, in his estimation, best represented his political principles.
Sentence structure becomes a vehicle to encode
Federalist ambitions and initiatives and to respond to the pervasive negativity of his opponents with a persuasive formal subtlety.
Additionally, they interviewed the head of the major
federalist opposition party (Preston Manning [Reform]), the Canadian ambassador in Washington (Raymond Chretien-the prime minister's nephew but also a professional career diplomat), the leader of the second separatist party (Mario Dumont), and several minor players whose positions appeared bureaucratically important but whose roles were secondary/tertiary.
The goal of American govern-ment--at least according to the
Federalist authors of the Constitution--is not to enact the spur-of-the-moment popular will, even if widely held, but rather to restrain and delay that impulse so that there is time to reflect on and consider its worth.
escalating their demands for greater federal power,
Federalists framed
The system was overturned by the Gaddafi regime and
federalists claim the east, which was the cradle of the revolution on February 17 last year that overthrew the former dictator, was neglected under his rule.
Despite this focus on the contest in the House of Representatives between the two Republican candidates, which is reflected in the book's subtitle, Sharp advances a thesis that the election was uniquely bitter and divisive because each of the two major parries--the
Federalists and the Republicans--"was organized around the belief that it, and it alone, was the interpreter and translator of the wishes of the fictive sovereign people" (p.
