Crossword-Solution: FEDERALIST
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Federalist | n. | An advocate of confederation; specifically (Amer. Hist.), a friend of the Constitution of the United States at its formation and adoption; a member of the political party which favored the administration of president Washington. |
We have 5 clues for the answer “FEDERALIST”
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| Alexander Hamilton was one. | 1 answer |
| Alexander Hamilton, for one | 1 answer |
| Alexander Hamilton, politically | 1 answer |
| Hamilton, for one | 3 answers |
| AN ADVOCATE OF FEDERALISM | 11 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree;
supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this
application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir
J. Davies.
Hint 2 anagram
IVDEIN
Hint 3 another clue
"Delicious!"
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Sentences with FEDERALIST (5)
But what reward had it for the lonely, embittered, stricken man whose genius and courage had gained for it the great Northwest territory? What reward had the Republic for him who sat brooding in his house above the Falls--for Citizen General Clark? In those days you were not a Federalist or a Democrat, you were an Aristocrat or a Jacobin.
Pinckney is not elected, a revolution will be the consequence, and within four years I will lose my head or be the leader of a triumphant army." The Federalist clergy joined in denouncing Jefferson on the ground that he was an atheist.
The qualified negative is, therefore, a beneficent power, intended as General Hamilton expressly declares in the "Federalist," to protect, first, the executive department from the encroachments of the legislative department; and, secondly, to preserve the people from hasty, dangerous or criminal legislation on the part of their representatives.
Should a strong Federalist as some call themselves see what has now dropt from my Pen, he would say that I am an Antifed, an Amendment Monger &c; those are truly vulgar terms, invented and used by some whose feelings would be sorely wounded to be ranked among such kind of Men, and invented and used for the mean purpose of deceiving, and entrapping others whom they call the Vulgar; but in this "enlightned" Age one should think there was no such Vulgar to be thus amused, and ensnared.
Barere, however, really was a federalist, and, we are inclined to believe, the only federalist in the Convention.
Quotes with FEDERALIST (3)
If your friend wishes to read your 'Plutarch's Lives,' 'Shakespeare,' or 'The Federalist Papers,' tell him gently but firmly, to buy a copy. You will lend him your car or your coat - but your books are as much a part of you as your head or your heart.
The author characterizes Hamilton's tone in the Federalist papers by saying that he never spoke of problems but of being at the last stage in the crisis.
I am not a Federalist,” he declared in 1789, “because I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men whatever.… If I could not go to heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NY Sun, NYT.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1947–2024).