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    216 months ago

    Political parties in general. The problems specific to a two-party systems weren’t understood yet. Being that the United States was figuring out how a modern democracy should work as it went, that’s not surprising.

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      56 months ago

      The founders went for a “winner takes all” system, and the two party system emerged from that, as an unforseen (but natural) consequence.