Sounds promising — right? There’s more. Its name is stodgy, akin to blowing dust from an old tome in a Philadelphia attic: t he Federalist Party of America. What’s next? Powdered wigs?

By the time Alexander Hamilton died on the dueling grounds of Weehawken, New Jersey, the power of the Federalist Party was in terminal ... war with France at the end of the 1790s, the Federalists ...

The election of 1800 featured the overheated rhetoric we know well today, and in the defeat of the Federalist party, Marshall may well have seen the beginning of the end for America, a descent ...

Toward the end of his term, a bill to charter a second ... The public viewed the results of the War of 1812 so favorably that the Federalist Party faithful who had opposed the war witnessed ...