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Political parties in the USA

Simon Lemieux makes connections and synoptic links while evaluating the functions of US political parties

US political parties are directly covered in Edexcel section 5.2 and AQA section 3.2.1.6. However, the content of this article applies to much of AQA Paper 3 and Edexcel Paper 3.

American political parties have received a bad press from their earliest days – ironically, given how they dominate most elected offices in the USA, from the presidency to local state offices via Congress and even much of the judiciary. George Washington, no less, believed parties would bring down the whole political edifice of the US, becoming:

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