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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.

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they were developed whil George Washington's administration

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The two-party system began at the Constitutional Convention.

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