The formation of the Political Parties "Why can't we all just get along?" Is a famous quote from the lawyer Rodney King, it may be very new in nature but in all actuality it has very deep roots. Back in the revolutionary time period between 1788 and 1800 there was a lot of arguing and verbal fighting going on in America. The loose Articles of Confederation had just been scrapped and the stricter Federal Constitution was now …showed first 75 words of 1101 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1101 total…they later split back up into the National Republicans and The Jacksonian Democrats, until they finally became the present day Democrats and Republicans. These changes in the two party system all occurred for particular reasons, the same reasons which occurred in the formation of the two parties. There were political issues, economical issues, foreign policy issues and democratic principle issues which all played major roles in the founding and development of the two political parties.