Again, check out our chapter in “Patriot’s History.” Mike Allen wrote most of this, and my brief explanation here won’t do it justice. He details precisely how the term “Federalist” was originally the term for separation of powers.
Thank you, but I do not have access to your book.
Perhaps you can accomodate me by listing just a few of the leaders of this previously unknown powerful “third force” which planned to abolish states and install a strong centralized government. My understanding of the period, which could certainly be in error, is that this faction didn’t exist except in the rhetoric of the opponents of the Constitution.