Two Party System

A two party system is a system where two major political parties dominate voting in nearly all elections at every level of government and, as a result, all or nearly all elected offices are members of one of the two major parties.1 Usually in two party system’s counties there are two different ideologies, the conservatives and liberal. In United States, there are two parties, Republicans and Democrats. And in this system, Republican Party is the conservatives, Democratic Party is the liberal. Before the Civil War, the party called Democratic-Republican. By the 1850s the debate over slavery had created divisions within both parties. The Democrats split into Northern and Southern factions. Many Whigs joined a new party that opposed the spread of slavery--the Republican Party. In 1932 the Democratic Party won the White House and assumed control of Congress. For next 50 years, Democrats remained the majority party. But beginning in 1968, Republican Party controlled the White House for 6 of the next 9 presidential terms. And beginning in 1995, for the first time since Truman, a Democratic president worked with a Republican. Republican Party emphasizes the role of free markets and individual achievement as the primary factors behind economic prosperity. To this end, the...

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