Talk:Federalism in the United States

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[edit] Jefferson

Jefferson was not an anti-Federalist. As I understand it, he thought there should be a Bill of Rights, but thought the Constitution was basically good. As the then US Minister to France, he was not in a position to have a public position on it one way or the other. john k 18:59, 20 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rename

Can I rename this article to Federalism in the United States to bring in line with Federalism in Australia? AndrewRT(Talk) 21:47, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Hmmmm.... not sure whether this is a move or a merge, both articles have non-trivial histories although there is a lot of text in common. Andrewa 16:46, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Actually, Federalism in the United States is now a redirect here, as the merge was completed several days/weeks ago. I'll tag the pages for a history merge (which only an admin can do) so we can keep the edit histories of both pages. - BillCJ 17:43, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

Yes, I saw that redirect before. So in your opinion the merge is complete?

If it really was a merge then probably a history merge is the last thing we now want... it could destroy both article histories by interleaving the edits. Rather, we need to preserve the edit histories of both articles. There are several ways this could be achieved. Andrewa 21:31, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

And it's been done. See Talk:Federalism (United States) for discussion of the merge. Andrewa 06:31, 22 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] This article sucks

Seriously, it gives little information on the Federalists, or what they believed. You can learn more about them through the Federalist Papers article and the Anti-Federalist articles.

It's not about the Federalist party, its about the system of federalism in the Unites States. Next time come a little more informed before you condemn an entire article. Eternalmonkey 18:31, 15 October 2007 (UTC)