From the campus of Hillsdale College in Hillsdale, Michigan, this is the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour, bringing the activity and education of the college to listeners across the country.

Here's your host, Scott Bertrand.

Hello again, everybody, and welcome in to another

edition of the Radio Free Hillsdale Hour. On this episode, with presidential conventions in full

swing, limited as they are, we talked with Adam Carrington from Hillsdale's politics department

about the history of political conventions. Roger Kimball discussing the rule of law in a republic and his recent piece at Real Clear

Politics.

And Kathleen O'Toole, Assistant Provost for K-12 Education at Hillsdale College, is back to tell

us how teachers can prep for what could be another unusual school year.

First, we're joined by Dr. Adam Carrington,

Associate Professor of Politics at Hillsdale College.

Dr. Carrington, thanks for joining us.

Glad to be here.

This is a different year when it comes to our presidential political conventions.

Thought we take a step back and look at the history of political conventions a little bit.

How did political conventions get their start here in the U.S.?

They really come out of the bigger story of a durable two-party system forming.

So we start out many founders bashing parties in the early part of the Republic.

We have our first two early parties, the Federalist and the Democratic Republicans.

Those didn't last.

The federalists went away.

The idea was it was the party war to end all parties.

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