John Adams and the Two-Party System
Submitted by darkmatter on Sat, 06/04/2016 - 7:34pmIn 1780, seven years before our present Constitution was drafted, John Adams wrote the following in a letter:
There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.