... of a congressional elected President, would be put in jeopardy. (Pierce 39). The members of the Congress recognized this and the danger it posed to the system of democracy. Alexander Hamilton, co-author of the Federalist Papers, acknowledged this hazard and stressed in the Federalist Papers No. 68 that unlike Congress, or any other permanent body with duties beyond electing the ... American democracy has matured sufficiently enough for the choice of the President to be entrusted directly to the people." (Pierce 41). James Madison, Gouverneur Morris and James Wilson were three of the few d...

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... maintains accurate membership lists. Some of the best evidence regarding party affiliation comes from voting surveys and public opinion polls. Such surveys and polls show that the majority of American voters who identify with a political party consider themselves Democrats. But party identification has never meant straight party voting. In the 1980 and 1984 presidential elections, for example, ... . These political organizations began to take shape before Washington became president in 1789. Soon after, the two groups developed into the first American political parties, the Federalist Par...

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