US political parties: issues, trends, alignments
By tracking political alignments, we can track general periods, patterns and events across American history.
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Trends and alignments across US History[edit | edit source]
Constitutional debate[edit | edit source]
Federalists
Anti-federalsts
Early Republic[edit | edit source]
- Period: Washington to Madison
- Period of political alignment also referred to as the "First Party System"