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2 unusual facts about the Federalists


The Federalists

The Federalists provided the main support for Or, The Whale at Great American Music Hall in San Francisco and opened for Santana at the Sleep Train Pavilion in Concord, CA.

The single from their 2008 record, 'City Girl', received support from Bay Area radio stations such as; LIVE 105, KFOG, and 107.7 The Bone.


Federalist

During the 1790s and early 1800s, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison organized the Democratic-Republican Party and opposed the Federalists over issues of how broadly (or narrowly) to apply the provisions of the new Constitution.


see also

George Logan

--opposition? the Federalists were in power--> Federalists, who had passed a statute informally known as the "Logan Act", which made it a crime for an individual citizen to interfere in a dispute between the United States and a foreign country.

Spencer Roane

In 1804, Roane persuaded his cousin Thomas Ritchie, a schoolteacher and bookstore owner, to establish the 'Richmond Enquirer' as an intellectual counterweight to the 'Virginia Gazette' (which supported the Whig party) and 'Richmond Recorder' (which supported the Federalists).

United States Senate election in New York, 1791

Many of the Federalists took the opportunity to show their disapproval of both Schuyler's haughtiness and the financial policies of Alexander Hamilton, the U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and Schuyler's son-in-law.