Dvostranački sistem u SAD
The Two-Party System in the United States

Summary/Abstract: In the first chapter under the headline of »Introductory considerations« the author firstly gives a survey of the history of the beginning of political parties in the United States. He observes that constitutionalists as well as the text of the Constitution from 1787 did not foresee the existence of parties. Moreover, in this period there was an open aversion to political fractions which would, according to the then opinion, jeopardize just acquired unity of the nation. Nevertheless these fractions were created very quickly being guided by Hamilton on one side, who was the guide of so-called »federatists«, and on the other side by Madison and Jefferson, who were the guides of so-called »antifederalists«. Political parties in modern sense were created during the time of President Jackson in the thirties o( the last century when the Democratic Party arose, while the Republican Partu arose some time later, in 1854.

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