The United States is considered a two-party system which are the Democratic
             and Republican parties. There are third-parties in the United States, but are not as
             known the two parties the Democratic and Republican parties have been around
             The Democratic-Republican Party was established during the 1790's under the leadership of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison. It was generally called the Republican Party, but it has no relation to today's Republican Party, founded in 1854. People from a variety of backgrounds formed the Democratic Party to oppose the policies of the Federalist Party, led by Alexander Hamilton. The Federalists wanted a strong national government controlled by the upper classes. The Democratic Party favored a weak national government. They believed that all the people should take part in the process of government. The Federalist Party or the Republican Party was one of the first political organizations in the United States. The Federalists controlled the nation's government from 1789 to 1801. They favored a strong central government, a large peacetime army and navy, and a stable financial system.
             There are many differences between the parties two of them are; the nature of the distribution of power in the parties: in the Republican party, power flows from the top down, where as the opposite is true in the Democratic party. Their attitudes to themselves with notice to holding office differ; the Republicans, in many ways is the same way as the Conservative party in Britain, they see themselves as the natural party of power, and regard themselves as insiders even when out of power.
             The Democrats are very much outsiders, even when they do hold power. These key features explain the great differences in the way in which the inner politics of the parties are conducted, regardless of the final policies adopted, both parties face the same institutional restrictions on
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