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• Federalist party
  Federalist party

  noun

  a political group that favored the adoption by the states of the Constitution.
• Federalist Party
  Federalist Party

  noun

  the American political party founded in 1787 and led initially by Alexander Hamilton. It took an active part in the shaping of the US Constitution and thereafter favoured strong centralized government and business interests

Federalist party

American  

Or Federal party

noun

1. a political group that favored the adoption by the states of the Constitution.

2. a political party in early U.S. history advocating a strong central government.

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Federalist Party British  

noun

1. the American political party founded in 1787 and led initially by Alexander Hamilton. It took an active part in the shaping of the US Constitution and thereafter favoured strong centralized government and business interests

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Federalist party Cultural  

1. The first American political party. The Federalist party developed during the presidency of George Washington and was led by Alexander Hamilton and John Adams. Federalists believed in a strong federal government and advocated economic policies that would strengthen the federal government, such as the creation of a national bank. The opposition to the Federalists was led by Thomas Jefferson.

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The Democratic-Republican party was concerned that free Negros overwhelmingly voted for the Federalist party.

From Salon ● Feb. 27, 2022

The Federalist party broke up and vanished after the War of 1812.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 31, 2021

The ruling Federalist party and the established clergy operated as one big machine.

From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2020

In the 1820s, the Federalist party collapsed and the Whigs eventually took their place.

From Seattle Times ● Feb. 5, 2019

Hamilton was, after George Washington, the most powerful figure in the Federalist party and, his advocates would have added, the intellectual wellspring for all the political energy that Washington merely symbolized.

From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis

By this time Washington was seen as the “father” of our country, but his political party, the Federalist Party, was no longer in power.

From Slate ● Dec. 20, 2025

The war tied Englishness exclusively to the Federalist Party, which was on its last legs and about to disappear.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025

While Adams' Federalist Party won the battle to replace Washington, it lost the war when it came to shaping the young nation's destiny.

From Salon ● Aug. 15, 2021

Antiwar sentiment and threatened secession made the Federalist Party seem hopelessly unpatriotic.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

But they were also highly unwise, subjecting the Federalist Party to the odium of fearing free speech, of declining a discussion of its policy, and of hating foreigners.

From History of the United States, Volume 2 by Andrews, Elisha Benjamin