Definition of 'plagiarize'. plagiarize (pleÉªdÊÉraÉªz ) If someone plagiarizes another person's idea or work, they use it or copy it and pretend that they thought of it or created it. Moderates are plagiarizing his ideas in hopes of wooing voters.
Definition. The Federalist Party, along with the Republican Party, was part of the first two-party system in United States history. The Federalist Party formed during the 1790s as the country's leaders disagreed over key provisions of the Constitution and major foreign policy issues.
Members of the party generally believed that a strong federal government would weaken the rights of the states and the people and insisted on a strict construction of the Constitution. Fundamentally, they viewed the United States more as a confederation of sovereign entities woven together by a common interest. The Democratic-Republican Party and Federalist Party differed most in their views on foreign policy and the economy.