WHO WAS INVOLVED IN THE PARTY PRESS?
- Federalists
- Anti-federalists/republicans
Federalists included Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and John Adams. One of the writers for their federalist newspaper, the gazette, was John Fenno. "
Federalists beliefs:
-national bank
- tariffs
- implied powers
- good relations with Britain
-the rich, the able, and the well born.
Anti-Federalists/republicans include Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin franklins grandson, Benjamin Bache. Bache was a writer for the anti-federalist newspaper called aurora.
Anti-federalists beliefs:
-everything opposite of the federalists
- questioned the ratification of the constitution
- worried central government could turn into a monarchy.