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I recommend prosifying the patterns section. I'll get around to this in the future if I have time ^_^ — Deckill e r 02:52, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
Someone has splattered this "party system" method of understanding American political party development all over American history articles in wiki. But hos prevalent is this system stuff. Who is McCormick, the guy who invented it? Is this system in common use in scholarship, or is it just the academic bailiwick of some little scholar in Pennsylvania, for example? Wise people want to know. I think this article needs to give some background on the "party system" method of understanding American history, who developed it, and what it's all about. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.139.33.169 ( talk) 17:55, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
"The Democrats said that would fatten the rich; the tariff should be low--for "revenue only" (thus not to foster manufacturing). Whigs argued that banks and paper money were needed; no honest man wants them, countered the Democrats. Public works programs to build roads, canals and railroads would give the country the infrastructure it needed for rapid economic development, said the Whigs. We don't want that kind of complex change, said the Democrats. We want more of the same--especially more farms for ordinary folks (and planters) to raise the families in the good old traditional style. More land is needed for that, Democrats said, so they pushed for expansion south and west." It should be written in a formal manner rather than unattributed pseudo-quotes or whatever the heck is going on here. Settler 05:03, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
The first sentence of the second paragraph says that McCormick defined the "Party System." There are two McCormicks listed in the bibliography. Which particular McCormick did the defining? And what is his authority? Is he a historian, a political scientist, a FOX news anchor, an athlete, a gandy dancer, or what? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.130.24.130 ( talk) 20:27, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
Why are the Anti-Masons listed as both a major and a minor party at the very beginning of the article??? Shouldn't they fall under only one or the other??? Calder 16:23, 9 February 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Calder ( talk • contribs)
The section "Patterns" is rather contradictory.
Consider, for example, the 6th bullet (the two parties were about equal in each region) and the 10th bullet (the Anti-Masonic party flourished in the states with a weak second party.) Um, if you have two equal parties, how can you possible have a weak second party? I mean, you can have both parties be weak, but not one or the other.
Can we get some clarification, please?
-- Mûĸĸâĸûĸâĸû ( blah?) 03:14, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
Gianapp is mentioned in the section Democratization and reported in reference n. 24, but this has been done without some fundamental data: who is Gianapp? Which is the document mentioned and reported? Could someone give us more data about that? Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cedro1972 ( talk • contribs) 08:22, 23 December 2021 (UTC)
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I recommend prosifying the patterns section. I'll get around to this in the future if I have time ^_^ — Deckill e r 02:52, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
Someone has splattered this "party system" method of understanding American political party development all over American history articles in wiki. But hos prevalent is this system stuff. Who is McCormick, the guy who invented it? Is this system in common use in scholarship, or is it just the academic bailiwick of some little scholar in Pennsylvania, for example? Wise people want to know. I think this article needs to give some background on the "party system" method of understanding American history, who developed it, and what it's all about. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.139.33.169 ( talk) 17:55, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
"The Democrats said that would fatten the rich; the tariff should be low--for "revenue only" (thus not to foster manufacturing). Whigs argued that banks and paper money were needed; no honest man wants them, countered the Democrats. Public works programs to build roads, canals and railroads would give the country the infrastructure it needed for rapid economic development, said the Whigs. We don't want that kind of complex change, said the Democrats. We want more of the same--especially more farms for ordinary folks (and planters) to raise the families in the good old traditional style. More land is needed for that, Democrats said, so they pushed for expansion south and west." It should be written in a formal manner rather than unattributed pseudo-quotes or whatever the heck is going on here. Settler 05:03, 9 April 2007 (UTC)
The first sentence of the second paragraph says that McCormick defined the "Party System." There are two McCormicks listed in the bibliography. Which particular McCormick did the defining? And what is his authority? Is he a historian, a political scientist, a FOX news anchor, an athlete, a gandy dancer, or what? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 172.130.24.130 ( talk) 20:27, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
Why are the Anti-Masons listed as both a major and a minor party at the very beginning of the article??? Shouldn't they fall under only one or the other??? Calder 16:23, 9 February 2009 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Calder ( talk • contribs)
The section "Patterns" is rather contradictory.
Consider, for example, the 6th bullet (the two parties were about equal in each region) and the 10th bullet (the Anti-Masonic party flourished in the states with a weak second party.) Um, if you have two equal parties, how can you possible have a weak second party? I mean, you can have both parties be weak, but not one or the other.
Can we get some clarification, please?
-- Mûĸĸâĸûĸâĸû ( blah?) 03:14, 16 June 2011 (UTC)
Gianapp is mentioned in the section Democratization and reported in reference n. 24, but this has been done without some fundamental data: who is Gianapp? Which is the document mentioned and reported? Could someone give us more data about that? Thanks — Preceding unsigned comment added by Cedro1972 ( talk • contribs) 08:22, 23 December 2021 (UTC)