US political parties: issues, trends, alignments

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

mermaid code:

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Constitutional debate[edit | edit source]

Federalists Anti-federalsts

Early Republic[edit | edit source]

First Party System 1792-1816: alignments according to the vice presidential election of 1792 and presidential elections from 1796-1816 (Wikipedia).

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