There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.

- John Adams (1780) (and we now have dems & repubs)

The division of our governmental system into “two great parties” was a statistical inevitability based on how the voting system works.

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    aaand the very next President, Jefferson, pretty much brought about the two-party system. Granted, the Federalists did...
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    (and we now have dems & repubs)
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