ABSTRACT
The British system requires political party affiliations and loyalty to party. The size of the nation and the complexity of the issues have made political parties necessary from the very time Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson squared off. The United States has too many problems, activities, and concerns to abandon the coalescing force of major political parties. The Republican party functioned well as a political party in 1952, as did the Democratic party. David Broder case for the American political party includes making political parties again more a part of the presidential nominating process. There are many reasons for reviving political parties and, as Broder put it, for using political parties to renew our faith in our self-government. The parties are buffeted and twisted by the whim of state legislators interested in provincial pretensions instead of goals that serve the nation in presenting the best-possible candidates to the voters.
