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The United States has had five or six party systems, pairs of dominant parties, each with distinctive constituencies and positions. There have been numerous smaller parties over the US's history, but most of them have either remained insignificant or else have joined one of the major parties.

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  • US party systems
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  • The United States has had five or six party systems, pairs of dominant parties, each with distinctive constituencies and positions. There have been numerous smaller parties over the US's history, but most of them have either remained insignificant or else have joined one of the major parties.
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  • The United States has had five or six party systems, pairs of dominant parties, each with distinctive constituencies and positions. There have been numerous smaller parties over the US's history, but most of them have either remained insignificant or else have joined one of the major parties. The United States's political system has long had antiquated features like first-past-the-post voting. Duverger's Law then sets in, guaranteeing that the US always has at most two major parties. However, that has not kept the parties from realigning every now and then. These realigning usually take place in periods of Liberalism and reform in Arthur Schlesinger's US history cycles, or shortly before.
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