Billy_Kinetta
Paladin of the Lost Hour
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If you recall, the Founders in the main wanted no party rule.
Actually what I recall is that Washington (singular) disdained political parties and he was quickly countered by Hamilton, Adams and John Jay forming the Federalist Party and Jefferson and Madison starting the Democratic-Republicans.
Appropriately enough those latter two specifically disdained the WTA scheme that has short-circuited the Electrical College ever since.
For the layman:
The Founding Fathers did not originally intend for American politics to be partisan. In Federalist Papers No. 9 and No. 10, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, respectively, wrote specifically about the dangers of domestic political factions. In addition, the first President of the United States, George Washington, was not a member of any political party at the time of his election or throughout his tenure as president. Furthermore, he hoped that political parties would not be formed, fearing conflict and stagnation, as outlined in his Farewell Address.
-Wikipedia