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This 3 page paper briefly discusses the rise of political parties in the United States. Bibliography lists 1 source.
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into existence at the same time as the country was founded. This paper discusses the reasons for the appearance of political parties, what their issues were, and the function they
served within the new nation. It also considers the goals of Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton with regard to the two new factions. Discussion When the nation was founded, it
was hoped at first that it would be a one-party state "in which partisan distinctions would be muted by patriotism and public virtue" (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 208). The
founders were leery of factionalism, and felt that a single party system would curb it (Faragher, et al, 2000). The rise of the early political parties can be traced
to the "shifting coalitions" that formed in Congress from 1789 to 1795: commercial interests were pitted against agrarian interests; "representatives from the Atlantic seaboard against those from the frontier, Anglophiles
against Francophiles"; the greatest division of all was between the North and South, with a great deal of tension centering on the question of slavery (Faragher, et al, 2000, p.
208). Arguably one of the greatest mistakes of the early republic was to put the Constitution on place with slavery still a part of it. At any rate, the
various coalitions broke and reformed, and "first began to polarize into political factions during the debate over Jays Treaty in 1795, when agrarians, Westerners, Southerners, and supporters of France came
together in opposition to the treaty" (Faragher et al, 2000, p. 209). Madison acted as the leader of this coalition which was eventually to evolve into what was called the
"Democratic Republican Party" (Faragher et al, 2000). Its adherents were opposed to the idea of a strong federal government and wanted to limit its power; they were "sympathetic to the
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