Two-Party+System

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The Two Party System is were two major political parties dominate voting in nearly all elections. This results in almost all elected offices being held by one of the two parties. the two parties can guarantee that their will always be a majority and minority. Policy making takes place within the political party.

__The Formation of The Two Party System__
After the first real election between Thomas Jefferson and John Adams the two party systems was created. This was during he 1790's and the two parties were the Federilists and the **Democratic**–**Republican.** After the civil war until now the two parties are the Republicans and the Democrates. By 1796 both parties had a national network of newspapers that attacked each other. Many in congress were hard to classify in the first two years however as time went on this was not true.



__Federailsts__
The Federalists were one of the two parties of the Two Party System and one of the first in the United States history. The Federalists were formed by Alexander Hamilton and two of his freinds and associates formed the Federalists Party to talk about their political ideas. The Federilists believed in a stong national goverment. In 1790 both Hamilton and Jefferson wanted to radify the Constitution and were considered Federalist but Jefferson and his supporters were not a few years later. The federalists wanted to have a diverse economy by adopting economies like France and England.

__Democratic-Republicans__
The Democratic-Republicans were one of the parties of the Two Party System in the history of the United States. The Democratic-Republicans was founed by James Madison and Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson made the Democratic-Republican Party to dissagee with the economic and foreign policies of the Federalists. Around 1800 Jefferson wanted to defuse the central goverment's power.



__Advantages and Disadvantages of the Two Party System__
There are advantages and disadvantages of the Two Party System. One of the most important advantages of the Two Party System is that when there are more than two parties, parties with similar ideas could have the votes split therefore the third most popular party would win the most votes. The biggest disadvantage to the Two Party System is that a majority dominate party can develope and that party would rule without compromise.

__Conclusion__
The Two Party System is a system in goverment used for voting and contaning two sides the Federailsts and the Democratic-Republicans. The Federailsts were people who wanted a very strong central goverment. And the Democratic-Republicans were people who wanted the central goverment to leave the states alone.

__References__
Garraty, John A. The Story of America. Austin TX: Holt, Reinhart and Winston

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