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Federalist

An advocate of confederation; specifically (Amer. Hist.), a friend of the Constitution of the United States at its formation and adoption; a member of the political party which favored the administration of president Washington.

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Advocate 76% connected

One who pleads the cause of another. Specifically: One who pleads the cause of another before a tribunal or judicial court; a counselor.

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Exponent 76% connected

A number, letter, or any quantity written on the right hand of and above another quantity, and denoting how many times the latter is repeated as a fa…

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Politician 76% connected

One versed or experienced in the science of government; one devoted to politics; a statesman.

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Proponent 76% connected

Making proposals; proposing.

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Federalism 74% connected

the principles of Federalists or of federal union.

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Federalism 74% connected

the principles of Federalists or of federal union.

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Adoptive adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to adoption; made or acquired by adoption; fitted to adopt; as, an adoptive father, an child; an adoptive language.

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Affiliation noun · 78% connection

Adoption; association or reception as a member in or of the same family or society.

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Amphictyony noun · 78% connection

A league of states of ancient Greece; esp. the celebrated confederation known as the Amphictyonic Council. Its object was to maintain…

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Anti-federalist noun · 78% connection

One of party opposed to a federative government; -- applied particularly to the party which opposed the adoption of the constitution o…

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Belamy noun · 78% connection

Good friend; dear friend.

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Bluebonnet noun · 78% connection

low-growing annual herb of southwestern United States (Texas) having silky foliage and blue flowers; a leading cause of livestock pois…

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Bund noun · 78% connection

League; confederacy; esp. the confederation of German states.

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Chemistry noun · 78% connection

That branch of science which treats of the composition of substances, and of the changes which they undergo in consequence of alterati…

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Circuit noun · 78% connection

(law) a judicial division of a state or the United States (so-called because originally judges traveled and held court in different lo…

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Colonizationist noun · 78% connection

A friend to colonization, esp. (U. S. Hist) to the colonization of Africa by emigrants from the colored population of the United State…

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Communalism noun · 78% connection

A French theory of government which holds that commune should be a kind of independent state, and the national government a confederat…

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Confederacy noun · 78% connection

The persons, bodies, states, or nations united by a league; a confederation.

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Confederate adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to the government of the eleven Southern States of the United States which (1860-1865) attempted to establish an inde…

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Constitutional Convention noun · 78% connection

the convention of United States statesmen who drafted the United States Constitution in 1787

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Disunionist noun · 78% connection

An advocate of disunion, specifically, of disunion of the United States.

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Dover's Powder unknown · 78% connection

A powder of ipecac and opium, compounded, in the United States, with sugar of milk, but in England (as formerly in the United States)…

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Eminent Domain noun · 78% connection

the right of the state to take private property for public use; the Fifth Amendment that was added to the Constitution of the United S…

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Episcopalian noun · 78% connection

One who belongs to an episcopal church, or adheres to the episcopal form of church government and discipline; a churchman; specificall…

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