It was all about the Federalist Party.

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There have also been rumours of a new Conservative slate from the party's federalist wing.

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Defensively, Jindal assured his audience that his federalist vision of modernizing the Republican Party did not mean "moderating" its policies in any way.

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The main opposition Spanish Socialist Party, which urges a federalist system for the regions, will be the biggest loser, dropping eight seats to 20 representatives.

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But their affinity for nation-building, which required that big business and big government collaborate on sea-to-sea projects, reaches back past European immigration and the Republican party itself to the Whig and Federalist imperative to transform the American hodgepodge into a union in fact complete with a fully integrated continental economy, national education, and so on.

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Into this maelstrom, Jefferson delivered perhaps the most conciliatory inaugural address in U.S. history, "better liked by our own party than his own, " in the words of Massachusetts Federalist George Cabot.

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Yes, the judge engages in extended discourses on constitutional history and theory, quotes the Federalist papers and even mentions the events that led up to the original Tea Party.

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In the early 1800s, typical publications were the Gazette of the United States, a pro-Federalist newspaper sponsored by Alexander Hamilton, and Jefferson's National Gazette, a pro-Republican party publication.

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