Political Parties

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The Founding Fathers did not want political parties because they considered them to be “factions" and did not want them to gain too much power.A faction is majority or minority of the amount of citizens, “who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community. Madison had explained in No.10 of the Federalist papers, that the improvements of the American Constitution, have some flaws, and there had been complaints from “citizens, friends of the public and private faith and of public and personal liberty, that our governments are too unstable, that the public good is disregarded in the conflict of rival parties, and …show more content…

Parties are structured into three categories; Parties in government, parties as organizations, parties in the electorate. In government, parties control congress and the presidency by preventing policy cycling. In organizations, “parties nominate candidates, help candidates get their messages out to potential voters and supporters,hire campaign workers, raise money, and turn out voters on election days.” (Kollman 417). As for the electorate, party identification(loyalty) is revealed by measuring the psychological attachment to a party, information shortcuts by categorizing candidate and politicians based on party labels, and running talley, where the candidates who have high approval ratings , will have the political party beside him dominate over the other. Political parties also discuss things that other parties are not usually talking about. When electing new members of a party,they tend to exploit one another revealing scandal to the public that may or may not be critical news. Many politicians chose to be independent and not use party labels because if anything were to go wrong in the government it would be less likely that larger mistakes would happen with one person compared to a hole part being

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