Hume also noted that political parties "subvert government, render laws impotent, and beget the fiercest animosities among men of the same nation, who ought to give mutual assistance and protection of each other...and...they always infect the legislature itself." [David Hume, Essays Moral, Political, and Literary, Eugene F. Miller, ed.]
Parties always strive to increase their influence, and after the Twelfth Amendment passed in 1804, the political party system in America grew rapidly, soon becoming a shadow government in every city, state, small town, and neighborhood--exactly what the Framers had tried to avoid.
(Paradigm Shift: Paradigm 5 Principles Are the New Political Parties)
Parties always strive to increase their influence, and after the Twelfth Amendment passed in 1804, the political party system in America grew rapidly, soon becoming a shadow government in every city, state, small town, and neighborhood--exactly what the Framers had tried to avoid.
(Paradigm Shift: Paradigm 5 Principles Are the New Political Parties)
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