By Alan Ware (auth.)
Recently, there was a excessive point of clash in American politics. titanic disagreements over executive rules have pitted one team of usa citizens opposed to one other. This booklet explores how and why this sort of politics constructed and argues that primary disagreements among americans have consistently been on the root of its politics.
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The capital for railroads and mines in the west and south often came from the Northeast. 21 During economic depressions the banker and the financier were not understood, especially in the west, as people who were similarly hurt by adverse conditions, but as aliens who were the cause of the problems. This came to the fore especially in the 1896 election. For all the commitment to private enterprise in the United States, there is an equally strong tradition of suspicion toward much of the financial sector that facilitates the functioning of enterprise.
It was there that these conflicts were to 36 ● Political Conflict in America bear directly on electoral competition between Democrats and Republicans after the Civil War.
In Britain, where after 1914-24 there was little political division that was not class-related, it was the presence of just two parties—one avowedly supporting working-class interests and the other equally opposed to a class basis to politics—that helped to push class to center stage. In America, The Divisions in American Society ● 25 with extended (white) male voting rights preceding industrialization, there were already parties available to mobilize those who came into the industrial workforce.
