On Mar 21, 2008, at 12:53 PM, Marie McHarry wrote:
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> The Founding Fathers didn't want political parties, so they set up a
> system that assumed there would be none.
Yeah, they were certainly not omniscient. This from Wikipedia:
The followers of Alexander Hamilton, the Hamiltonian faction, took up the name
"Federalist"; they favored a strong central government
The followers ofThomas Jefferson, the Jeffersonians and then the "Anti-Federalists," took up
the name "Democratic-Republicans" they preferred a decentralized
agrarian republic in which the federal government had limited power.
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