The history of United States parties, including the reasons for the development of two-party system. In the beginning of our nation’s history, party did not exist and were not expected to develop. However, our founding fathers, despite of revolutionary backgrounds, believed that good citizens were those who would support the new government. Whereas, bad citizens were those who would oppose.
Although Madison was speaking a temporary majority, rather than the enduring and institutionalized majority or very large majority, that forms the modern political party, it was in fact around principles of justice and the general good that parties originally formed in the United States. This viewed of the founding fathers as something other than disinterested was most strikingly advocate in 1913 by Charles Beard in his economic interpretation of the Constitution. Beard work suffered from exaggeration, inadequate research and outright error, all which have been thoroughly exposed by recent studies. However, these basic point, that the constitution was devised and ratified by those whose personal interest required strong central government which would adopt and carry out a national policy of sound conservative financing has emerged
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Consequently, the Federalist, as they came to be known in their fight for ratification of the instrument they had devised, did not believe they were a party. Nonetheless, this great non-party. Campaigned for the constitution, explaining and defending it widely, most notably in the Federalist Papers of Madison, Alexander Hamilton, and John jay, and then succeeded in packing the ratifying conventions which creditors, manufacturers and merchants, and others likely share their principles (Peters & Wooley, Democratic Party Platforms,