Editing Two-party system (section)

===American===
Although the [[Founding Fathers of the United States]] did not originally intend for American politics to be partisan,<ref>{{citation |title=Washington's Farewell Address |title-link=s:Washington's Farewell Address |url=}}</ref> early political controversies in the 1790s saw the emergence of a two-party political system, the [[Federalist Party (United States)|Federalist Party]] and the [[Democratic-Republican Party (United States)|Democratic-Republican Party]], centred on the differing views on federal government powers of [[United States Secretary of the Treasury|Secretary of the Treasury]] [[Alexander Hamilton]] and [[James Madison]].<ref>Richard Hofstadter, ''The Idea of a Party System: The Rise of Legitimate Opposition in the United States, 1780–1840'' (1970)</ref><ref>William Nisbet Chambers, ed. ''The First Party System'' (1972)</ref> A consensus on these issues ended party politics in 1816 for a decade, a period commonly known as the [[Era of Good Feelings]].<ref>Stephen Minicucci, "[http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=275165&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S0898588X04000094 Internal Improvements and the Union, 1790–1860]", ''Studies in American Political Development'' (2004), 18: pp. 160–85, (2004), Cambridge University Press, {{doi|10.1017/S0898588X04000094}}. {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160822070745/http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=275165&fulltextType=RA&fileId=S0898588X04000094 |date=2016-08-22 }}.</ref>

Partisan politics revived in 1829 with the split of the Democratic-Republican Party into the [[Jacksonian Democracy|Jacksonian Democrats]] led by [[Andrew Jackson]], and the [[Whig Party (United States)|Whig Party]], led by [[Henry Clay]]. The former evolved into the modern [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic Party]] and the latter was replaced with the [[History of United States Republican Party|Republican Party]] as one of the two main parties in the 1850s.