perfidy

Ok, ok, ok, you got me. I'm a Cafeteria Federalist, to be sure! 

The goals of the Federalists are no longer valid-- history has moved along too far, and proven them wrong on many counts. I still think a national bank is and was a good idea, but the rest of it has been rendered silly by the passage of time, and don't agree with them. 

As for loose constructionism: the Constitution is full of compromises, some good, some not-so-good (the 3/5ths clause comes to mind). It is not the received word of God, handed down verbatim from His holy tongue, but rather a set of really good ideas the spirit of which must be respected while keeping in mind that we no longer live in 1787. That being said, phrases like "Congress shall make no law" and "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people" are pretty unequivocal. 

As for Query number 9, of course I fear Aaron Burr. The descendents of Jonathan Edwards are not to be fucked with. In sum, I'm as much a Federalist as a Republican, by 1795 terms. But, since "Republican" now means its opposite, what the hell. I'll steal the definition of Federalist for myself, and start an Alexander Hamilton fan club!