What two-party system was created with the 1828 election?
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National Republican and Democratic Republican. The Democratic Republican is our Democratic party today, and the National Republican party fell apart, many of it's members joining the Whig party, and many joined the Republican party we have today after it was formed.
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what's a liberalist? I'm not familiar with that term.\n\nThe Whig Party was a political party of the United States during the era of Jacksonian democracy. It was integral to the Second Party System and operated from 1832 to 1856 and was formed to oppose the policies of President Andrew Jackson and the Democratic Party he had founded. In particular, the Whigs supported the supremacy of Congress over the Executive Branch and favored a program of modernization and economic development. Their name was chosen to echo the British Whig Party, which had opposed a strong monarchy, just as the American Whigs were opposing a strong presidency. The Whig Party counted among its members such national political luminaries as Daniel Webster, William Henry Harrison, and their pre-eminent leader, Henry Clay of Kentucky. In addition to Harrison, the Whig Party also counted several war heroes among its ranks, including Generals Zachary Taylor and Winfield Scott.\n\nIn its 26-year existence, the Whig Party saw two of its candidates elected President of the United States—-Harrison and Taylor—-and saw both of them die in office. Four months after succeeding Harrison, Whig President John Tyler was expelled from the Party, and Millard Fillmore, Taylor's Vice President, was the last Whig to hold the nation's highest office.\n\nThe party was ultimately destroyed by the question of whether to allow the expansion of slavery to the territories. Deep fissures in the party on this question led the party to run Scott over its own incumbent President Fillmore in the U.S. presidential election of 1852. The Whig Party never elected another President. Its leaders quit politics (as Lincoln did temporarily) or changed parties. The voter base defected to the nativist Know-Nothing Party, the anti-slavery Republican Party, various coalition parties in some states, and even to the Democrats.
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First of all, William Seward wasn't nominated, and there were 4 candidates. At the time of 1860 election, the party system was fracturing, as there were many people who disagreed with the Democrats on certain issues, like spreading slavery, etc., but did not agree with the Republicans either, and did not want to fracture the union. Thus, 4 major parties had nominees for the presidency, Lincoln for the Republicans, Douglas for the Democrats, John Breckenridge for the Southern Democrats (who took a stronger view on states rights than the Democrats), and John Bell for the Constitutional Union Party.
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In the 2 party system you would have half the people unhappy no matter what a politician did.  you would never have any politician in office for more than 30 days...\n\nActually, now that I think about it, I like the idea.
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Wouldn't it be nice to be able to get rid of the two party system! Unfortunately, there is nothing currently in existence that would satisfactorily replace it. If we were to switch to a multi-party system, like many countries in Europe, there would be far more candidates, far more political parties, and thus more political bickering. It is unfortunate that we cannot abolish political parties altogether. Sadly, it is simply too expensive to run for a political office without the support of some group. I think a major solution to our problems is the elected officials themselves.
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Abraham Lincoln was the first "Republican" President, elected in 1860.  It is simplistic to think that one side was Democrat and the other was Republican.  Just like today, there are Democrats and Republicans in all States.  The correct way to look at this would be in terms of political ideology rather than parties.  That is "Federalists"; those that believed in a strong national government and "Anti-federalists"; those that believed in strong states rights and a weak national government.  The "North" was "Federalist" and the "South" was "Anti-federalist"\n** Note:Prior to the 1860 election, the two major parties were the Whigs and the Democrart-Rebublicans (Democrats for short) originally founded by Thomas Jefferson.
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The attached link has a list of all political parties in American politics. (I am assuming that you are interested in US politics?)  It is a very informative site, with information about when the parties were formed, notable members, and their agenda.\n\n\nhttp://www.politics1.com/parties.htm
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The only way I see americans voting someone other than the two leading parties is if a third party were to break away from one of the major parties. It's happened before. The Republican party was started from the Whig party. I could see \nAmericans voting for a third party who had a platform of ridding the government of rampant corruption and getting us out of Iraq.
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A two party system can't really represent a population as diverse and huge as the US.  There are other parties, but most people are creatures of habit and do not want to stop doing what they've always done, picking Dem or GOP at every election.  The major parties focus on important political issues because they want to gain seats in congress, but they don't necessarily focus on issues that really matter in the lives of Americans, because those might not get as many people to the voting booths come november.\n\nI hope that people will seize on any curiosity caused by this question and check out some third parties.  Even if you never vote for a third party member, it's good to get another perspective on the issues that face the US today.
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First off, the framers of the constitution did not want a two party system per se, what they wanted was a government set up to do war with itself. The framers wanted a government with gridlock, checks and balances and division of powers to prevent the situation we find ourselves in today, where a single ideology has siezed control of the government. \nUnfortunatly for our nation most americans today are to disinterested in the political process to think to not vote for the R's or the D's. There are independant candidates but without party support its virtually impossible to make it in a political race, unless you have milions of dollars to spend. \nWe as a people need to realize that the decision is not between left and right, but freedom or tyranny.
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The track record for third parties in this country has never been one of success. Even the Republican party only became viable after the whigs disbanded. I'm afraid the answer is yes, but not successfully. Americans only have the capacity to understand a binary political system. As long as the majority of the American sheeple continue to blindly toss thier votes away on these bufoons, we won't make any progress.
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Why not??  If they can SPLIT, then there's no reason you can't have two organize themselves into one.\nOur current major parties were once all part of the same party called the "Democratic-Republicans".
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"Yes. In January 1810, Republican (the ancestors of the modern Democrats) Senator Philip Reed introduced an amendment that, after twice being considered by a committee, was approved by the Senate by a vote of 19 to 5 on April 26, 1810. The House then on May 1, 1810 approved the amendment by a vote of 87 to 3. (See Conklin at 123) As approved, the text was as follows:"
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We already have a one-party system.  It's called the "Property Party".
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The Democratic Republican Party was the precursor of the Modern day Democrat Party. The party grew out of the anti-Federalist sentiments of men like Thomas Jefferson which originally focused on the proper power and relative authority of the Federal and State governments.\n\nThe Democratic Republicans (who generally referred to themselves simply as "Republicans" prior to 1820) favored the state governments over the Federal, the small yeoman farmer over city dwellers, and opposed both the Federal Court system and the National Bank.
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You are correct but what are we going to do? We have a wonderful 2 party system--bad and worse. It has been that way forever and it isn't going to change.
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Neither party existed in 1789. Republicans and Democrats have flipped on several issues as well as demographics over the years.