US political parties: issues, trends, alignments

By tracking political alignments, we can track general periods, patterns and events across American history.

mermaid code:

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Constitutional debate

Federalists Anti-federalsts

Early Republic

• Period: Washington to Madison
• Period of political alignment also referred to as the "First Party System"