From the column: "Trump’s and the Republican Party’s apparent desire to control the citizenry parallels that of the ...

They resented Federalist monetary policies, which they believed gave advantages to the upper class. In foreign policy, the Republicans leaned toward France, which had supported the American cause ...

The country’s two political parties – the Federalists and the Democratic-Republicans – were increasingly hostile to one ...

What were the political parties in 1776? The Federalist Party, founded largely by Alexander Hamilton, and the Jeffersonian Democratic-Republican Party, formed by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, ...

In doing so, Marshall imposed a Federalist vision on often-reluctant Democratic–Republican political branches, cementing his own vision of what the United States should become: one nation ...

Although Federalists and Republicans agreed on the need to maintain the public credit, they diverged considerably on how the borrowing power should be implemented. Indeed, the core differences in ...

but it has federalist virtues -- and the GOP has an incentive to pass it. Republicans are trying to pass health-care reform. The latest installment of this eternal endeavor is a bill drafted by ...

This output would spawn a political party, the Federalist Party, which existed for several years in opposition to the Jeffersonian Republicans who advocated greater rights for individuals and states.