Federalists. Along with John Jay and Alexander Hamilton, James Madison penned The Federalist Papers. The supporters of the proposed Constitution called themselves "Federalists." Their adopted name implied a commitment to a loose, decentralized system of government.
The progressive party was successful in getting congress to pass and the states to ratify the seventeenth amendment on april 8, 1913, which allowed for the direct election of u.s. senators by the voters themselves, substituting Article I, Section 3, Clauses 1 and 2 of the constitution, in which the Senate was elected by the State Legislatures.
<span>Napoleon's army was badly outnumbered, his best men were lost in his devastating invasion of Russia.</span>
