The Third Party System

When asked what would happen if a third party were to come to our traditional two-party system and rise, one has to stop a moment and consider. Mainly what the new party offers and how does it compare and contrast with our current parties? A good example is to actually take a look back into any country’s history. Let’s us also look at the facts of history that as one party does in fact rise, it does in time supplant one of the original party or parties be it by deliberate design or the sway of opinion. In all truth what is really being asked is what would happen if a new party came into the picture. The number of parties is largely irrelevant. To illustrate my point we need not look long at all to see all manner of political ideologies take

This included feudal rights, tithes, privileges for nobles, unequal taxation were all abolished. The National Assembly on August 26th laid out the Declaration Rights of Man and Citizen which made a system of rights that applied to all people. This is quite different from the American Bill of Rights which was begrudgingly tacked on at the end and only applied to non-slaves. However, all of this said, the upstarts of the Revolution was not truly so much embodying the regard of Enlightenment Ideas. Rather, as stated prior, there are grievances that give rise to the radical idea. It was about lack of food and a political system that made economic contraction hardest on the poor. A good argument is often said that the early stages of the French Revolution were not all that revolutionary. There is a basis for this. In an analysis, the National Assembly wanted to create a constitutional monarchy, they believed the King was necessary for a functioning state and they were mainly concerned that voters and office holders be men of property. Only the radical wing of the Jacobins called for the creation of Republic. The Jacobins in time got unruly and the national assembly troops fired on them at a rally, killing fifty. Now the peasants see the National Assembly this “voice of the people” as now vilified as they had killed people in an attempt to reign in revolutionary fervor. And this is my point you see so much of this throughout history. What looks like radical hope and change, even in our modern day, soon becomes the all too powerful and restrictive tyrant as increasingly radical ideas are