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To: CharlesWayneCT

In his Farewell Address, Washington warned of “the baneful effects of political parties.”


26 posted on 07/22/2013 6:52:21 PM PDT by Publius
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To: Publius

Many of the founders decried the idea of political parties or factions, and pushed for a government where you could not get a majority party because the decisions would be so small that there’d be factions fracturing all over the place.


27 posted on 07/22/2013 6:54:58 PM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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