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Constitutional Convention with the Federalists and the Anti-Federalists.
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The Democratic-Republicans were unopposed in government until the mid 1820s
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In 1828 Andrew Jackson’s Democratic Party (which came out of the Democratic-Republicans) came to power
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Democrats were crippled by the war
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In 1932 Franklin Roosevelt, a democrat, was elected to the presidency.
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Since 1968, we have had a government characterized by neither party consistently holding power – divided government