It began from the first moment that the constitution was written. There were two groups of thinking about how government should be run. The Federalist and Anti-federalist. The federalist thinking was that a strong central government was needed to be able to be successful and the anti-federalist thought a weaker federal government was important. Of course, over time these groups became the political parties. George Washington thought political parties were bad and discouraged them while he was president, but when you have groups of people there will always be division on thinking. Thomas Jefferson once remarked that with 2 people you have a law firm and 3 make a political party. I think he is right.
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In the United States, the party system began with the election of the second president. John Adams a Whig was elected over Thomas Jefferson, a Federalist.
The beginning of the third party system occurred when the Republican Party first began to dominate American politics.
The Federalist Party was the first American political party, from the early 1790s to 1816, the era of the first party system, with remnants lasting into the 1820s.
Federalists and Jeffersonian Republicans.
the populist party
It does not. A two Party system is no where to be found in the Constitution. The two party system was created by the Founding Fathers as a way of organizing people with like minded ideals, and as a way to get political power. The first two parties being the Federalists and the Democrat-Republicans