Comment by zdragnar
2 days ago
And yet, there were defacto political parties in the delightfully misnamed federalist and anti-federalists. It was this divide that led to the first political parties.
2 days ago
And yet, there were defacto political parties in the delightfully misnamed federalist and anti-federalists. It was this divide that led to the first political parties.
Oh, they cannot be avoided really, except by a system where party allegiance cannot influence the choice (like hereditary power).
Arrow's theorem would cause them to emerge even then.
> this divide that led to the first political parties
Maybe in Britain. Parties were definitely a thing going back to Roman politics.
No, I meant in the newborn US. The OP founding fathers reference is Hamilton and the Federalists who feared the harms of political parties, but ultimately couldn't reconcile with the anti-federalists who ultimately formed the democratic-republican party.