To apply his brain to the small universe of money instead of the battle between Jefferson and the Federalists?
The Federalists, as exemplified by Alexander Hamilton, John Adams and John Marshall, were more consistently revolutionary in defense of rights than the Jeffersonian democrats were.
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The federalists have always argued that European union would evolve gradually, with closer economic union creating both the need and the desire for closer political co-operation.
EU's powers may be modest compared with the federalists' wish-list, and countries retain a veto in over 40 policy areas, against some 153 provisions to be decided by majority vote.
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Not at all, said the Belgians and other federalists, for whom the creation of such a tax remains a cherished ideal.
Forming our new group had a logic to it: the EPP is dominated by federalists and cheerleaders for the social market economy.
Many Czechs relished their president's stand against the Euro-federalists.
Federalists deplore the proposed overriding of a core competence of states.
Until recently Mr Fischer was the hero of European federalists.
In the run-up to polling day, angry federalists in eastern Libya who want more power for the oil-rich coastal province of Cyrenaica (Barqa in Arabic) stormed several polling centres in Benghazi, the main city of the east, where the revolt against Qaddafi began a year and a half ago, and blockaded oil terminals.
Anti-Federalists charged that the Constitution was so difficult to read that it amounted to a conspiracy against the understanding of a plain man, that it was willfully incomprehensible.
European federalists know that the single currency zone will need at least a ten-fold increase in direct EU taxes (currently 1.28% of GDP) for there to be any prospect of European social stability.
So the Gaullists, temporarily led by the young and ambitious Nicolas Sarkozy, the party's secretary-general, find themselves squeezed between Mr Pasqua's Europhobes, currently attracting 10-12% of the vote, and Mr Bayrou's Euro-federalists with 8-9%, leaving the main Gaullist-Liberal Democratic list with a wretched 17-20%.
If Europe can hold it together with the Greece and PIIGS fiscal-train wreck, then Franco-German-Brussels EU federalists may get their FTT in the euro-zone or entire EU-wide.
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Soon afterwards, the case for replacing national vetoes with majority voting was made by federalists, who claimed, often wrongly, that the new members had rendered EU institutions unwieldy.
Keen federalists, well to the fore in the convention, want a single European foreign policy.
The Bill of Rights, drafted by James Madison in 1789, offered assurance to Anti-Federalists, who feared that there would be no limit to the powers of the newly constituted federal government.
Devout federalists have their answer: unanimity is the enemy of progress in an EU of 27 countries.
The second error is to assume that the crisis has been a lasting blow for European federalists.
It is to their credit that federalists do not think voter indifference to the EU can be ignored.
Federalists measure Europe's importance by the size of its budget.
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Fervent federalists (and a few Eurosceptics) have rushed to claim that the euro's long-term survival requires a United States of Europe, with a big central budget.
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