... when partisanship began to develop, it was to the disappointment of the first president George Washington, who, in his Farewell Address, urged his countrymen to 'forswear excessive party spirit'1. We thus have established is that the party system was not planned in the sense that no provision was made for it in the constitution. It can therefore be described as spontaneous, in the sense that it came about off its own accord, or specifically to this essay, through the differing philosophies of Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson. What therefore created the 'spontaneous' party political system we see in the nowadays United States? There are a variety of factors which both include and do not include the individuals in the title of this essay. There are also certain factors which, without them, the actions of those same individuals would not have taken place and thus provide a key basis for the development ...

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