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In foreign policy, Federalists generally favored England over France. Anti-Federalists such as Thomas Jefferson feared that a concentration of central authority might lead to a loss of individual ...

Should unelected federal officials exercising immense power be immune from censure? The anti-federalists, critics of the proposed Constitution of 1787, saw danger in total judicial independence.

Sounds promising — right? There’s more. Its name is stodgy, akin to blowing dust from an old tome in a Philadelphia attic: t he Federalist Party of America. What’s next? Powdered wigs?

They began to emerge with disputes over the ratification of the Constitution, becoming known as the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists. George Washington specifically warned against “the ...

A reader of my “Perennial Publius” series has written to ask what edition of the Federalist I would recommend. Quite a while ago another asked why I wasn’t linking to each essay in some ...

The Anti-Federalists echoed Mason’s concern, that the Vice President would be an agent of executive subversion of the legislature. John Adams intentionally signed Senate documents as “John ...