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Clinton received 50 electoral votes to 77 for Adams. His candidacy was damaged by his anti-Federalist record and by his narrow and disputed re-election as governor in 1792. (He won by only 108 votes, and the substantial anti-Clinton vote of Otsego County was excluded on a technicality.) [2] He did not run for re-election as governor in 1795.
Although there is no canonical list of anti-federalist authors, major authors include Cato (likely George Clinton), Brutus (likely either Melancton Smith, Robert Yates or perhaps John Williams), Centinel (Samuel Bryan), and the Federal Farmer (either Melancton Smith, Richard Henry Lee, or Mercy Otis Warren [citation needed]).
The Anti-Federalists debated with their Federalist colleagues, including Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, on the functional model and competencies of the planned federal government. The Anti-Federalists believed that almost all the executive power should be left to the country's authorities, while the Federalists wanted centralized ...
Anti-Federalist. After Marcus Junius Brutus, a Roman republican involved in the assassination of Caesar. Published sixteen essays in the New York Journal between October 1787 and April 1788. Candidus Benjamin Austin [2] Cato George Clinton [2] Anti-Federalist. Centinel: Samuel Bryan: Alternately, the author possibly was George Bryan. [2 ...
After leading candidates declined to be considered, the Federalist Party nominated John Jay at a meeting in New York City on February 13. Chief Justice Robert Yates, an anti-federalist who had received cross-faction support to run against Clinton in 1789, attended and expressed his support for the Federalist ticket. [4]
George Clinton, Governor of New York (1777–1795, 1801–1804) George Washington, President of the United States (1789–1797) Born out of the Anti-Federalist faction that had opposed the Constitution in 1788, the Democratic-Republican Party was the main opposition to the agenda of Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton.
Two buttons for Bill Clinton's 1992 campaign that could create trouble for Hillary Clinton's campaign amid a renewed debate over the use of the Confederate flag have surfaced.
George Clinton, believed to be the Anti-Federalist writer Cato. The Anti-Federalists vigorously contested the notion that a republic of diverse interests could survive. The author "Cato" (another pseudonym, most likely that of George Clinton) [26] summarized the Anti-Federalist position in the article Cato No. 3: