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1 POLITICAL PARTIES

2 FUNCTIONS OF THE PARTY Nominating Candidates
Structuring the Voting Choice Proposing Alternative Government Programs Coordinating the Actions of Government Officials

3 THE PARTY SYSTEMS The Pre-Party Period
The First Party System: The Founding Federalists and Jeffersonian Republicans ( ) 1800 The Second Party System: Jackson Democrats and Whigs ( ) 1828 The Third Party System: Sectionalism and the Civil War Democrats and Republicans (1852-Present)

4 CURRENT PARTY STRUCTURE

5 MINOR PARTIES/THIRD PARTIES

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