Twilight of the Two Party System

Submitted by BeyondLeft on Sat, 12/01/2007 - 14:03.

150 years of Two Party rule comes to an end

1792 - Democratic Republican Party formed by Jefferson and Madison.

1854 - Republican Party formed by former Whigs, Northern Democrats, and Free-Soilers.

1890 - Democratic Party becomes Socially Liberal.

1890-1910 - 14th Amendment (of 1868) designed to give citizenship to former slaves, used by Corporations in over 288 cases and only 14 black American cases.

1898 - In addition to Smythe v. Ames, and several other Supreme Court Rulings; Corporations achieve the Legal Fiction of Constitutionally-protected Corporate Personhood.

2006 - Nancy Pelosi states that interfering with the freshly paved Yellow-Brick-Road from K-Street to DC, is "off the Table."

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