How did the creation of the political parties change politics in the United States?


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The US Constitution has never formally addressed the issue of political parties. The Founding Fathers did not originally intend for American politics to be partisan. The First Party System of The United States featured the Federalist Party & the Democratic-Republican Party. By 1796 both parties had a national network of newspapers, which attacked each other vehemently. The Jeffersonians invented many of the campaign techniques that were later adopted by the Federalists & became standard practice

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