Talk:Anti-Federalism
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[edit] President Jefferson and the Anti-Federalist Platform
what do you think about Thomas Jefferson strengthened the Anti-federalist platform during his time as President?
- I think that the Anti-Federalist movement was a decade dead and gone when Jefferson was President. — DLJessup 13:29, 11 August 2005 (UTC)
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- A lot of classical historians would agree with you. But Jefferson was Anti-Federalist to the bone... right up until the moment he became president. He fought the Federalists on a populist but social-libertarian platform. How much more Anti-Federalist can you get? I think most historians agree that he either heavily compromised or lost sight of his goals when he became president. Fearwig 05:11, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
I belive that since Thomas Jefferson was an Anti-federalist he purposely strengthened their platform while he was president.
[edit] Disambiguation
I motion that this be turned into a disambiguation page, or that it simply provide a disambiguation link to Hamilton's "Anti-Federalist" / "Anti-Administration" party. That has its own article already, and rightfully so. This article should also be renamed to correspond to the Federalist counterpart ("Federalist Party (United States)"). There is a big logical difference between anti-federalism and the Anti-Federalist party, and that needs to be enunciated. Fearwig 05:11, 26 May 2006 (UTC)
Okay, I'll lay this all out. What we need isn't a disambiguation page, but a split, so that:
- Anti-Federalist Party (United States) (currently and incorrectly a redirect to this article),
- Anti-Administration Party (United States) (some information seems to be contained here on that topic despite the existence of an article on the topic), and
- anti-federalism (political concept, including some platforms of the policy but not defined by the party itself or its history)
--are made distinct (see federalism and Federalist Party (United States) for comparison). The concept of anti-federalism is distinct from the Anti-Federalist Party (just as republicanism is distinct from the Republican Party), and as such this article is misnamed. The Washington-era "Anti-Federalist Party" doesn't belong here at all, since, as the article states, it was correctly called the Anti-Administration Party (United States). This means that some work will need to be done to Anti-Federalist Party (United States) using this information, and that anti-federalism will have to be created from scratch, but it's definitely necessary to correct this mistake.Fearwig 01:41, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
