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federalist

/fed-er-uh-list/US // ˈfɛd ər ə lɪst //UK // (ˈfɛdərəlɪst) US history //

联邦主义者,联邦主义,联邦党人,联邦主义者

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an advocate of federalism.
    • : U.S. History. a member or supporter of the Federalist party.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : Also fed·er·al·is·tic. of federalism or the Federalists.

Examples

  • Though Abiy’s government will weather the storm, there is more controversy to come as he moves forward with plans to amend Ethiopia’s constitution to change the country’s ethno-federalist structure.

  • America’s federalist structure also makes collective action, handed down from the federal level, extremely difficult.

  • And as one of the initial organizers of the Federalist Society, he is a skilled political tactician.

  • In the Federalist Papers, James Madison wrote, “If men were angels, no government would be necessary.”

  • As Madison put it in Federalist 52, the House was to be “dependent on the People alone.”

  • Not the rich,” as he wrote in Federalist 57, “more than the poor.

  • The first sentence of The Federalist Society states that this is a book “about the power of ideas.”

  • But Mr. Parnell was thinking only of Ireland, and he was not a Federalist.

  • But the propertied classes in the interior belonged chiefly to the Federalist party.

  • To-day Jeffersons directions are observed, and the Federalist remains the text-book.

  • He says the Republican and the Federalist parties were divided by a bottomless gulf in their theories of constitutional powers.

  • The Federalist clergy joined in denouncing Jefferson on the ground that he was an atheist.