Did the Founding Fathers want a two party system of government?

Answer 1

Two Party System? Not for our Founders.The founding fathers wanted to create a government like they saw the Native Americans using as far as personal freedoms. This is seen in the Albany Plan of Union, written by Bejamin Franklin. They had other sources, and were also used to the Britsh Government, a Parlimentary constituional monarchy. In additions, they had some fears and problems of their own-- like slavery, and a fear of too much power in the hands of the government. One of their great fears was party politics. They repeatedly warned against political parties, as you can see in the Federalist Papers, and some of Washington's speaches.Obviously, if they opposed a two-party system, they would not have favored one. They did form parties, the Federalist, the Democratic-Republican, the Whig and various others. The Democrats didn't even form until Andrew Jackson ran for office. The Republicans waited until the 1840s. They later took care to create ballot access laws to keep Independent and third party candidates from competing.