Presidential Elections in the American Political System
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The founders of the American republic did not, by and large, like political parties. Their whole political tradition taught them to identify “faction” and “party” with the irrational and disruptive tendencies in human life, with “passion” and “interest.” Against this they set constitutions, first the British Constitution, then the written American Constitution of 1787 as rational artifices or constructions designed to thwart “the spirit of party and faction.” Yet the very men who left their political testaments against party were also the creators of the first American party system, the heroes whose rites the parties celebrate down to the present.
1965 ◽
Vol 59
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pp. 117-118
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1985 ◽
Vol 15
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pp. 97-115
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1970 ◽
Vol 64
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pp. 179-181
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1987 ◽
Vol 81
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pp. 775-796
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