PSC 113 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Jacksonian Democracy, Contiguity, Defensively Equipped Merchant Ship
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Political parties: enduring political organizations that run candidates for office and try to win elections under their name. Founding fathers concerned about political parties and factions. Distrust and negative view of factions/parties (madison"s federalist paper #10) (george washington"s farewell address) War of 1812 affected navy and merchant and new england states since canada and britain were. Era of good feeling: pre 1824 the same team. Became powerful in period after civil war. Headed by bosses and exact loyalty from underlings. Single member district plurality elections produce 2 part system. Single member district --one winner gets all the power. Voters don"t waste vote for a third party. Voter marks ballot in private booth, hurting control party machines had over people since they couldn"t know if people would actually vote for them. Parties list/rank 4 candidates from their party. Need at least 10% of vote to win a seat.
