There are a few advantages in having a federalist government such as coining money, establishing an elite military and having a uniform style of government that isn't perfect but maybe as close as it possibly can. ... Military is always an issue for any country, federalist or confederalist it doesn't matter. Under the Federalist government in the United States, we have a very large military. ... With the federalist government all the different types of military work together. ... Confederalism would make it very hard to have a country that could keep the voluntary states togethe...

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The American government at the time was divided as we are today, but instead of having the Democratic and Republican Party they had the Federalists and Non-Federalists. Both the Federalist and Non-Federalists believed in allowing citizens to have gun, what was different about their views is the different regulations that they would like to apply on the second amendment. The Federalists believed that an army should be in control of defending the people therefore making individual ownership of guns unnecessary. The anti-Federalist believed that every individual should be allowed to carry their o...

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The Federalists, under Hamilton, and to an extent Washington, believed the complete opposite: a strong government, with a strong central leader is necessary to maintain the political and economic success of the newly formed nation. ... Alexander Hamilton, a passionate Federalist, proposed to Congress in January 1790 that the federal government assume all of the state debts, therefore allowing the money to be paid back more efficiently and quickly. ... The Federalists, however, countered Madison's concerns by stating that a country can only function with a strong government. ... Republican...

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Thomas Jefferson considered himself neither Federalist nor Anti-Federalist. ... Jefferson felt that because he opposed some of the Federalists ideas and many more of the Anti-federalists ideas that he could not be grouped with either party or in between the parties. ...

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Initially when the constitution was drafted, the anti federalists opposed it on the grounds that it gave too much power to the national government. ... Thus, James Madison argued in Federalist no. 10 that it would be in a large Federalist republic such as the United States, that one would find the greatest opportunity for all relevant interests to be heard. ...

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Appealing to the Supremacy Clause, the cooperative federalist would make the case the national government is supreme even when there is interference with the states. ... Dagenhart continued further with a dual federalist approach. ... The federalist system in the United States is perhaps the most genius framework ever assembled. ...

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Because of the ingeniousness of this plan, Jefferson, a Republican, left the Hamiltonian Framework essentially intact (minus the excise tax) despite his hatred of the Federalist Hamilton. ... Further, when Washington sent an envoy to Britain to seek peace, he sent an overt Federalist and Anglophile, Chief Justice John Jay. ...

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Federalists also felt that any concentration of power would work to the disadvantage of the people. ... In return for the Anti-federalists agreement to the supremacy clause, many guarantees were made to the states in the Constitution. ...

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"The Out-of-control Presidency" is an article my Michael Lind in which he makes the claim that the executive branch of the government has become too powerful. The congress, he suggests, is where the power of the federal government was designed to lie and the presidency was constructed to be little m...

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The American Revolution marked the beginning of a new nation. The Revolution's leaders believed in a set of principles and achieving specific goals. These goals included: freeing themselves from monarchical rule and establishing a republic based on a union of thirteen states to promote liberty and e...

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POLITICS OF MEXICO Spain ruled Mexico for three centuries, administering a vast economic, political, and religious empire in the interests of the imperial country, its kings, and its representatives in North America. Colonial policy was designed to extract wealth from ...

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The U.S. Constitution Article Five, clause two of the United States Constitution states, "under the Authority of the United States, [the Constitution] shall be the supreme law of the land." As a result of the fact that the current activist government is pursuing inconsistent policies, many believe the Constitution has become irrelevant because no guiding principles seem to exist. Thomas Jefferson once said, "The Constitution belongs to the living and not to the dead." Accordingly, it is often referred to as a "living" document because of its regular alteration and ...

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