As the two-party system emerged, Hamiltonian Federalists and Jeffersonian Democratic-Republicans disagreed on many matters. ... Because most European immigrants lacked wealth, they were looked down upon by the aristocratic Federalists. The Federalist congress decided to raise the residence requirements for aliens to become citizens from five years to an unreasonable fourteen years. ... The Federalists defended this law as a war measure, which still didn't seem plausible. ... Federalists, on the other hand, defended the Sedition Act as a necessary measure for the government's sa...

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The Federalists and Anti-Federalists debated this new plan of action for months. The Federalists were supporters of the Constitution. ... John Jay, Alexander Hamilton, and James Madison wrote a series of essays and published them as The Federalist Papers. ... The Anti-Federalists opposed the ratification of the Constitution; they feared that a strong central government would be used as an instrument of tyranny. ... They saw the Federalists as people who would oppress lower class people. ...

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Under the Federalists was a $ 10 million growth of the national debt alerted Jefferson and Albert Gallatin, the secretary of treasury. ... The conflicts over the judiciary were the reason Jefferson's hopes of conciliation with moderate Federalists could not be achieved. Judiciary Act in 1801, which probable author was the arch-federalist John Marshall, created 16 new federal judgeships, all of which J. Adams had filled with Federalists in last minutes "midnight appointments". ... The Republicans had taken the offense against the judiciary and impeached two Federalist judges. ...

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Under the administration of George Washington and his successor, John Adams, only members of the ruling Federalist Party were appointed to the judicial bench. In the election of 1800, Thomas Jefferson and the Democratic-Republican Party defeated Adams removing the Federalists from power. In an effort to keep at least one branch of the government under Federalist control, Congress under the Adams administration, passed the Judiciary Act of 1801 which created a number of new judgeships. ... Among the twenty-three appointments Adams had made for Washington County, he included a man named Willi...

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The Federalist No. 51 was one of twenty-six articles written by James Madison from 1787 to 1788 in order to persuade the people of New York to ratify the Constitution. To him, conflicts of interests are inborn in human nature and as a result, people fall into various groups. He wanted to make sur...

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James Madison, in Federalist No. 46 wrote that the state and national governments were made and given different powers. ... Alexander Hamilton concurred in Federalist No. 28 by stating that the people would sustain a balance between national and state power. ...

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Federalist's put forward the idea of much stronger central government. ... Nowadays federalism is not what federalists of 19th century expected it to be. ... Federal government and the Constitution of USA, established by federalists provides all freedoms and rights through the Bill of Right. ...

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Presidential Timeline Thomas Jefferson 1800- The election between Jefferson and Aaron Burr takes place. They tie, and Hamilton and Adams campaign for Jefferson, and he wins over Burr. Napoleon makes a deal with the King of Spain which gives the Louisiana Territory to France. 1801-Jeffe...

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The promises made by the anti-Federalists, which were the opponents of the constitution, weren't being honored, until they saw that they grew weary of the tenants, and loyalists land was confiscated and given to the tenants to make them freeholders. ...

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The period of 1789-1815 in the American history was an era of establishing America as a nation in the world. It was a period not long after the American Revolution, in a war which the Americans won their independence and then together formed a new nation. After the Constitution was ratified in 1788,...

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Jacksonian Democrats DBQ In the 1820-1840 period, Jacksonian Democrats viewed themselves as guardians of the Constitution. Meaning that they felt that they were true followers of the ideals of the Constitution, including political democracy, individual liberty, and equality of economic opportun...

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John Marshall was born on September 24, 1755. He was the first of fifteen children. Marshall was born into a wealthy family of Virginia and later Kentucky. Marshall was a well-educated man; he learned formal instruction from tutors and informal instruction from his parents. John Marshall learned po...

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