American history isn't a single linear story.

There are periodic changes to the political order, where political parties and affiliations often change.

According to political scientists, there have been six different political eras in American history.

Each era was a reflection of the issues that confronted the country at the time.

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The thing about American political parties is that they weren't even supposed to exist.

The founding fathers hated political parties and what they called factionalism.

It was the subject of Federalist Paper Number 10, written by James Madison,

and it was titled, The utility of the Union as a safeguard

against domestic faction and insurrection. Of course as soon as the government was

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