. The magazine of American history with notes and queries. self-government. He was one of the authors of The Federalist, and was in accord withHamilton and Jay in political opinions. He was, in brief, a sincere Feder-alist of an extreme type. But further thought upon the matters involved inthese questions wrought a radical change in his views. He became con-vinced that the provisions of the Constitution, strictly construed, should bethe exact measure of the Federal power. The friend of Washington andHamilton, he was compelled by his conscience to oppose the measuresdevised by the latter and pr
. The magazine of American history with notes and queries. self-government. He was one of the authors of The Federalist, and was in accord withHamilton and Jay in political opinions. He was, in brief, a sincere Feder-alist of an extreme type. But further thought upon the matters involved inthese questions wrought a radical change in his views. He became con-vinced that the provisions of the Constitution, strictly construed, should bethe exact measure of the Federal power. The friend of Washington andHamilton, he was compelled by his conscience to oppose the measuresdevised by the latter and presented by the former to Congress. He became,upon conviction, a pronounced Republican, as he had been before a pro- IOO OUR TWENTY-ONE PRESIDENTS nounced Federalist. He was the author of the Virginia resolutions ofI79%-9> which became a sort of gospel of States Rights in later times. It was Madisons fortune to see the party opposed to him destroy itselfby the character of its opposition to the measures of his administration. ^l^;::-I- :?????. JAMES When his second term drew near its end the Federalist party had almostceased to be. Its hostility to the administration had found expressionduring the war with Great Britain, in ways which, justly or unjustly, broughtsuspicion upon its patriotism, and a great number of its former adherentsabandoned it as no longer worthy of their support. In the election of hissuccessor, Monroe, the candidate of the Democratic Republicans, received183 electoral votes, with only 34 against him, and, at the end of his first OUR TWENTY-ONE PRESIDENTS :oi term, was reelected by an electoral majority of 231 to I. This was in the era of good feeling, and there is reason to believe that confidence wasthen felt in the continuance of that state of political unanimity among thepeople—a delusion which was soon dispelled.
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