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FEDERALISTS IN POWER. Though the Revolution had overthrown British rule in the United States, supporters of the 1787 federal constitution, known as Federalists, adhered to a decidedly British notion of social hierarchy. The Federalists did not, at first, compose a political party.
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Christian fundamentalism has roots in the 19th century, when Protestants were confronted by two challenges to traditional understandings of the Bible. Throughout the century, scholars increasingly evaluated the Bible as a historical text. In the process they raised questions about its divine origins, given its seeming inconsistencies and errors. In...
A series of Bible and prophecy conferencesspread these ideas to thousands of Protestants across the United States in the late 19th century. But two early 20th-century publications were particularly key to their dissemination. The first was author Cyrus Scofield’s 1909 Reference Bible. Scofield’s Bible included an overwhelming set of footnotes empha...
After Woodrow Wilson’s April 1917 declaration of war on Germany, the government mobilized a huge propaganda campaign designed to demonize the Germans as barbarous Huns who threatened Western civilization. Many conservative Protestants traced Germany’s devolution into depravity to its embrace of Darwinism and de-emphasis of the Bible’s divine origin...
Though the Scopes Trialbrought ridicule by the national media, fundamentalism did not wither away. Instead, it continued to advance during the 20th century. And it remained remarkably consistent in its central commitmentsof biblical inerrancy, apocalyptic premillennialism, creationism and patriarchy – the idea that women are to submit to male autho...
Understanding Christian America to be under deadly assault, in the late 1970s these politically conservative fundamentalists began to organize. The emergent Christian Right attached itself to the Republican Party, which was more aligned with its members’ central commitments than the Democrats. In the vanguard was Baptist preacher Jerry Falwell Sr. ...
- William Trollinger
When ABC produced its first large electronic map in 1980, it used red for Republicans and blue for Democrats, while CBS did the reverse, according to Wetzel. NBC stuck with its original color ...
In 1793, Alexander Hamilton recruited Webster to move to New York City and become an editor for a Federalist Party newspaper. He became a prolific author, publishing newspaper articles, political essays, and textbooks. He returned to Connecticut in 1798 and served in the Connecticut House of Representatives.
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As Norman Risjord has documented for Virginia, of the supporters of the Constitution in 1788, 69% joined the Federalist party, while nearly all (94%) of the opponents joined the Republicans. 71% of Thomas Jefferson's supporters in Virginia were former anti-federalists who continued to fear centralized government, while only 29% had been ...
Like his Federalist colleagues, he opposed the impeachment of Associate Justice Samuel Chase, an outspoken supporter of the Federalist Party. [39] Adams had strongly opposed Jefferson's 1800 presidential candidacy, but he gradually became alienated from the Federalist Party.
Aug 15, 2020 · FEDERALISTS IN POWER. Though the Revolution had overthrown British rule in the United States, supporters of the 1787 federal constitution, known as Federalists, adhered to a decidedly British notion of social hierarchy. The Federalists did not, at first, compose a political party.
