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Originally Posted by malloyd
Parties have no formal role or standing in the US government. The people writing the US Constitution were certainly aware they existed but opted not to say anything about them in the text. This is sometimes interpreted as an endorsement, or a condemnation, depending on one's view, but given that parties already existed I don't think you can call them a *consequence*.
I suspect most of them felt it was more an unrelated side issue - that parties weren't necessary for their ideas to work but weren't a problem either.
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Parties are in a sense a normal part of republican politics and not unknown in Imperial or Monarchial politics either. A massive political machine that is also an ideologically based faction is perhaps a peculiarity but perhaps not so much as might appear. Politics in America could however have been primarily kin-based or occupationally based just as easily, some regimes have stressed that, and an imaginary state might do so as well. Of course all those different factors play in (Traveller: First In gives an overview of how factions of a culture might congeal).