The Two Political Parties of American Politics

The Two Political Parties of American Politics

Abstract

This essay's aim is to talk about the two political parties of American politics. The purpose of the essay is to compare and contrast numerous aspects related to both the political parties of the United States. Moreover, the essay also aims to discuss the influence that the 'third parties' have on American politics. In addition to this, the essay aims to talk in alignment with one political party along with the supporting evidences for aligning with the one, and not to get agree with the others. Specific examples of fiscal and social policy are also included in this essay.

Introduction

Throughout the history of American politics, it has been dominated by a two-party system. The United States Constitution, however, has always remained silent on the issues regarding political parties. During 1787, the time when the United States Constitution was signed, the nation has no such political parties. As a matter of fact, voter based political parties do not exist in any nation of the world. During the years of 1790s, the need to win support in a republic led the invention of American political parties. Moreover, Americans are widely known for having innovative specialty of designing new campaign techniques in order to link opinion of the public with public policy through political party.

Discussion

The Republican Party and the Democratic Party are the political parties on which the modern two-party system of America consists. Since the years of 1930s, the left-of-center of American politics is positioned by the Democratic Party in general, whereas, the right-of-center is positioned by the Republican Party. Moreover, there are numerous third parties that function in the United States, who aim to achieve comparatively minor demonstration at the state and national levels from time to time (apr.sagepub.com).

As a matter of fact, the founding fathers of the country were not in the support of political parties, thus they did not account for the existence of political parties at the time of framing the Constitution of the United States. However, the emergence of political parties took place within a decade of the formation of the Constitution. Afterwards, political parties have become a significant part of America's governing processes and political system. Since then, they mobilize voters, select candidates, serve the function of watchdogs against one another, and organize the legislative process (apr.sagepub.com).

The two political parties

American politics have been subjugated by a system of two parties. Most of the times in history, only these two parties have performed the critical roles of selecting candidates, mobilizing voters, and organizing the legislative process at any given time. In addition to this, because of this domination of two parties in the political system of the United States, the composition and philosophies have also changed. It seems that every thirty or forty years, new parties take the places of old ones, and the political coalitions change within the parties. Furthermore, numerous studies also reveal that with the passage of time, the political parties are losing their ...