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Topics common to Anti-Federalist and Federalist papers Subject Anti-Federalist Federalist Need for stronger Union John DeWitt No. I and II: Federalist No. 1–6: Bill of Rights John DeWitt No. II: James Wilson, 10/6/87 Federalist No. 84: Nature and powers of the Union Patrick Henry, 6/5/88: Federalist No. 1, 14, 15: Responsibility and checks in ...
Failed after the Republican Party dropped support for it in exchange for the South's support of the McKinley Tariff and the Sherman Silver Purchase Act. Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill (1921) - sought to codify lynching as a federal crime. Defeated after a Senate filibuster by Southern Democrats. Costigan-Wagner antilynching bill (1934)
The Anti-Federalists believed that almost all the executive power should be left to the country's authorities, while the Federalists wanted centralized national governments. They also believed that a large central government would not serve the interests of small towns and rural areas, as opposed to the urban interests that most Federalist ...
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Democrats are facing harsh realities the day after Tuesday’s election as they try to recover from a political gut punch The post Black Republicans say election results are sobering moment for ...
During that period, the Republican Party—particularly in the Southern United States—was seen as more racially progressive than the Democratic Party, primarily because of the role of the Southern wing of the Democratic Party as the party of racial segregation and the Republican Party's roots in the abolitionist movement (see Dixiecrats).
The Massachusetts Compromise was a solution reached in a controversy between Federalists and Anti-Federalists over the ratification of the United States Constitution.The compromise helped gather enough support for the Constitution to ensure its ratification and led to the adoption of the first ten amendments, the Bill of Rights.
George Read (September 18, 1733 – September 21, 1798) was an American politician from New Castle in New Castle County, Delaware.He was a Continental Congressman from Delaware, a delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787, president of Delaware, and a member of the Federalist Party.