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===Political parties=== {{Main|Political parties in the United States}} {{unreferenced section|find=United States|find2=political parties|date=April 2024}} [[File:Women's March on Washington (32593123745).jpg|thumb|The [[2017 Women's March]] in [[Washington, D.C.]], protested the [[2016 United States presidential election|2016 election]] of President [[Donald Trump]]]] ;Background The [[United States Constitution]] never formally addressed the issue of [[Political party|political parties]], primarily because the [[Founding Fathers of the United States|Founding Fathers]] opposed them. Nevertheless, parties—specifically, two competing parties in a "[[two-party system]]"—have been a fundamental part of American politics since shortly after George Washington's presidency. In partisan elections, candidates are nominated by a political party or seek public office as independents. Each state has significant discretion in deciding how candidates are nominated and thus eligible to appear on a given election ballot. Major party candidates are typically formally chosen in a [[Partisan primary|party primary]] or [[Party conference|convention]], whereas candidates from minor parties and Independent candidates must complete a petitioning process. The current two-party system in the United States is made up of the [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] and the [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican Party]]. These two parties have won every [[United States presidential election]] since 1852 and have controlled the [[United States Congress]] since at least 1856. From time to time, a [[Third party (United States)|third party]], such as the [[Green Party of the United States|Green]] and [[Libertarian Party (United States)|Libertarian Parties]], has achieved some minor representation at the national and state levels. Since the [[Great Depression]] and the [[New Deal]], and increasingly since the 1960s, the Democratic Party has generally positioned itself as a [[Centre-left politics|center-left]] party, while the Republican Party has generally positioned itself as [[Right-wing politics|center-right]]; there are other factions within each.
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