Federalist Party (Belhavia)
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Federalist Party | |
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| Founder | Schlomo Mendel Weinbaum |
| Founded | July 22, 1851 |
| Dissolved | January 16, 1955 |
| Preceded by | National Party (directly) Traditional Union Party (in part) |
| Succeeded by | Conservative Party |
| Headquarters | Provisa (formerly) |
| Student wing | Federalist Students' League (defunct) |
| Youth wing | Young Federalists of Belhavia (defunct) |
| Ideology | Conservatism Industrialism Internal Factions: Social conservatism Traditionalist conservatism Jewish right |
| Political position | Right |
| Colors | Navy Blue White |
The Federalist Party, also commonly called the Federalists, Feds, or Blues (colloquially), is a currently defunct and long-lived historical conservative, modernizing, and jingoist political party in Belhavia that stretched the whole of the 3rd Party System (1858 - 1955) in Belhavian politics. It was the leading party of the right, and was formed from the remnants of the splintered National Party and Traditional Union Party. It was opposed for most of its existence by the classical liberal Liberal Party, and later from the 1920s to the 1950s, the Liberals' successor the Liberal Democratic Party.
The Federalists dominated much of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, espousing an ideology of modernization, industrialization, and a strengthened Imperial Government aligned with traditional conservative values of the Jewish right, nobility, and other elites.
By 1900, the Federalists had become weakened politically by corruption and malfeasance scandals, ruthless machine politics, and a fracture of the right-wing alliance of modernity-focused business magnates and the old Jewish nobility. Between 1900 and 1940, the Federalists faced strong competition from the Liberals, and less so from the Democrats, and after 1922, from the powerful third-party Fascists.
It became tainted from its association with Supreme Autocrat Zachary Galarian during the Galarian regime, and struggled after the autocracy's fall in 1945 to survive politically. In the 1954 midterms, it lost in a wave election to the Liberal Democrats from new revelations of its ties to Galarian by the press, and it collapsed in early 1955, with many of its members forming its contemporary successor, the Conservative Party that same year. The collapse of the Federalists is used by political historians as the close of the 3rd Party System and the beginning of the 4th Party System (1955 - present) in Belhavian politics.