deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed Political Party Systems and Realignment 9 17 13 and 9 19 13 Mass Behavior relationship b w we the people and the gov Mass media and social media Political parties democracies have many of them us has 2 majors Parties are based on certain issues and tends to stay stale then new issues arise to change realignment about 36 years then settles back down into a new party system they can keep their names but cant stand in the same issues or people Political parties are private organizations not mentioned in the constitution informal but important component in political system Why is periodic Old issues fade into memory Ex build roads using tax or bar with no tax moral issue not economic some in favor some against The progressive party we think alike The conservative party oppose politicians hate moral issues avoid delay the situation rather do a commission to make people forget However the people don t want that need a position some people can switch parties b c of moral issue but will stay because of economic issue switch parties because of this new issue progressive used to be economic issues now its also moral realignment a sharp and lasting change in party loyalties of major voting groups new issues that does not fit in the old part system Sailent the big issue polarizing pushes people towards one extreme or the other slavery and crosscutting divides each party internally3e Party system and realignment very controversial massive changes in civil war and great depression Realignment followed by stability then its renewed New issues yiunger electorae is intested in generation and a half 2nd perspective there are always new people enterim Deallignment no strong parties 1st party system 1796 democratic and federalist Democrats anti slavery amd pro slavery and the wigs smaller party couldn t survive slavery tired of one party small anti slavery groups developed on north became the republican party civil war 1860 wigs died out republican party already elected officials Abe Lincoln north and south democratic candidate 40 of the vote led to cvil war republican are dominate but democrat are also competitive 1890s northeast vs the south and the north 1928 democratic party nominated a catholic caused people to switch their votes republicans won hoover doesn t want to fo anything gov don t get involved in the economy Frankin Roosevelt new deal create jobs Fix economy get us back on track republian changed to the democrats 1932 4th term 1960 s issue of civil rights dominant issue democratic split 1964 the solid democratic turned to republican its realignment Party loyalty declines and new election laws and president of one party and congress of the other What happened and where are we now Party localities change because of issues at that time very important overtime issue is received people involved in issue died out New issues that are current Realignment about every 36 years there is no regularity There are always change in parties It s just change point if view Another republiv 1960 s party started to break down parties can no longer depend on straight ticket and attachment I ll them decreased All technology contributed Candidates are now calling the shot shots instead of the political The lasts 50 year s parties don t matter at all It s no longer realignment is dealingment the party is over power not there anymore History of party systems regular realignment every 36 year evidence weakness and strengths of both sides of the argument Where r we now Right now democrats are the dominated party but Bush was president for 8 year and other Bush too Us political party systems 1789 2008 The 1st two elections didn t have party systems A two party system developed after the election of John Adams as a Federalist believe in national government However the DemocraticRepublicans created by Thomas Jefferson believed in state rights The 2nd party system consisted of democrats and Whigs The Whigs though were becoming weaker and the democrats easily dominated the early 1800s elections By the 1860s the Whigs had died out because of the issue of slavery The democrats were split north democrats antislavery south democrats slavery A party developed in the North mostly against slavery called the Republican Party Since the Democrats were so divided form slavery Lincoln won barely won and it was also a divided nation This was one of the leads of the civil war This is easily known as a realignment That was the 3rd party system In the 4th party system the Republicans were still dominating but the democrats was also competitive One of the main reasons was the gold vs silver issue South and the west believed on silver while the north east believed on gold After that the democrats nominated their 1st catholic candidate So some people switched parties The 5th party system was more into the new deal realignment by President Wilson Democrats became more stronger from the government intervention programs Republicans were still competitive The Civil rights and Vietnam issue caused a huge realignments