Hi The Federalist party was founded after the revolution, and was a proponent of a federal as opposed to Confederated form of Government. The Federal principle was a geographical distribution of Power with a very strong central government, as opposed to the Confederation, which was in power at the time and had a very weak central goverment, with the Stsates retain the greater powers of authority/regulation. Your local library should have a copy of the Federalist Papers, which were a series of articles published in various colonial Newspapers to promote the Federalst aims. James Madison, Thomas Jeffferson was a major mover in the party, and largely through his efforts, the Constitutional conventions were convened, and the Constitution ratified. If you go to Google search engine, and request Federalist, it will provide you with a very nice site that discusses the Federalist, anti-Federalist thinking. Alan