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This 5 page paper discusses political parties, how forces within the parties drive them to their goals, how they encourage their members to participate in politics and other similar issues. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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listed below. Citation styles constantly change, and these examples may not contain the most recent updates. The Position of the Political Parties on the Environment Research
Compiled by K. Von Huben 7/2010 Please Introduction The political system in the United States is
dominated by two parties, the Democrats and Republicans. Many people believe that this structure is now so gridlocked that its impossible to get anything done, but although alternative parties do
exist, they are not viable. This paper discusses the two major parties positions on the environment. Discussion Its interesting to note that when the nation was founded, there were no
political parties; in fact, no one wanted them: "The framers of the Constitution envisioned a one-party state in which partisan distinctions would be muted by patriotism and public virtue" (Faragher
et al, 2000, p. 208). But what happened was that factions began to coalesce around the structure of the new government, with the "Federalists" favoring a strong central government and
the "Anti-federalists" favoring keeping more rights and powers for the states (Faragher et al, 2000). Tracing the development of the parties is beyond the scope of the paper, but suffice
it to say that over the period from the Revolution to about 1825, political parties coalesced and broke apart, including the two mentioned above, as well as the "Democratic Republicans,"
Whigs, the Know-Nothing Party and so on (Faragher et al, 2000). In the election of 1828, there were two major parties, the Democrats and Whigs; the Whigs ran their last
presidential candidate in 1852 (Faragher et al, 2000). That candidate was General Winfield Scott, and he alienated so many of his own party that a new party appeared that appealed
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