Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who favors consolidation, as of the parts of an empire or a political system.
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Examples
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The strict Republicans asserted that Adams was a "consolidationist," and Clay's views of the paternalistic duty of the National Government, no less than his association with Adams, placed him in the same category.
The United States of America, Part 1 Edwin Erle Sparks 1892
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Weak enough, indeed, was the complaint of "consolidationist" aggression, of which certainly no party to the so-called pact was or could have been guilty.
History of the United States, Volume 3 (of 6) Elisha Benjamin Andrews 1880
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Madison here ignored the preceding pronouncements in the same document, which comprised a consolidationist statement worthy of Daniel Webster.
"From Interposition to Nullification: Peripheries and Center in the Thought of James Madison." Kevin Raeder Gutzman. Kevin Raeder Gutzman. 1994
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He was called a monarchist and a consolidationist.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 Various
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He had been known as a strong friend of the Union, and some of the extreme States 'Rights men called him a "consolidationist."
Robert Toombs Statesman, Speaker, Soldier, Sage Pleasant A. Stovall 1896
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In order to effect this, powers were claimed and exercised by the latter, as the contest proceeded, higher and more extraordinary than the wildest consolidationist ever dreamed of asserting before.
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The most zealous consolidationist -- the bitterest contemner and reviler of the reserved powers -- the most ardent admirer of an imperial central power, to be erected on the ruins of States rights -- the busiest architects of such a structure, from Alexander
"Cato" on constitutional "money" and legal tender. In twelve numbers from the Charleston Mercury. 1862
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Does this mean that the teaching of history MUST conform to a consolidationist mandate?
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Does this mean that the teaching of history MUST conform to a consolidationist mandate?
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Their Contract with America doppelgangers pulled the same stunt a decade ago before signing on, without any apparent qualms, to the brutally consolidationist Bush-Cheney regime.
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