Be careful to develop your answer around the most significant areas effected. You must choose two from column one and one from column two. Merry Christmas Happy New Year. Political Parties Political party a group of office holders, candidates, and activists who identify with a group label and seek to fill public offices with individuals who also identify with that label. Two components to political parties office holders and candidates, workers and activists.
Parties are active on all three levels of government national, state and local.
As your book states parties although they have often garnered majorities and fragments of majorities based upon their ideological stance do not vie for the moral conscious of the country. They are much more practical in character, with a primary goal of getting their candidates elected. The original parties coalesced around ideological concerns dealing with the drafting, ratification and implementation of the Constitution. This is to say despite your books analysis, ideological concerns lay at heart of the history of political parties. Early in U.S. political history political parties sought to influence the moral and political beliefs of the country.