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To: Jim Noble

“No laws establishing one (or two) political parties have any place in a representative republic”

Not only that, the Founding Fathers deeply opposed parties which they termed “passions”.


53 posted on 03/23/2023 8:58:02 AM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: DesertRhino

Not only that, the Founding Fathers deeply opposed parties which they termed “passions”.


They were quite aware of how parties operated by the example of the Mother Country, England. They wanted no part of parties, thinking, naively, it turns out, that all American patriots would “be on the same page”. The Constitution was written with no parties in mind; an example was the V.P. being the 2nd place finisher in the Electoral College.

And while Washington was against parties, ironically the parties developed in his Cabinet with Jefferson and Hamilton (who b.t.w. wasn’t black) leading the opposing factions.


70 posted on 03/23/2023 9:17:50 AM PDT by hanamizu
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