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To: skeeter

Federalists like Hamilton, Adams, even Washington, though not officially a party member were for big federal centrally controlled government....

They were called the Federalist Party....

Much like today’s liberals....mind you I didn’t say progressives....an entirely different animal...

Loyalists were not liberals or part of any early political party or better said “movement” as the concept of a political party was not really an actual organization yet....


38 posted on 02/12/2014 7:01:33 PM PST by Popman ("Resistance to Tyrants is Obedience to God" - Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Popman
I was referring to attitude more than political affiliation.

Loyalists didn't mind being controlled by a faceless monolith a thousand miles away as long as they were kept safe and well fed. Sounds like socialism to me.

40 posted on 02/12/2014 7:22:13 PM PST by skeeter
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