Political Parties

[Taylr752]

Ive explored it and found there are Christian, Muslium, Jewish, Hindu, etc. political partys in america, yes it's legal, Should it be?  

[caustic 0_0]

Go into more detail? Give us some resources, articles, anything at all to work with here?  

[iviary]

Eh. Anyone can form a political party. I mean, the republican party might as well be a Christian party, with the percentage of conservative southern baptists, born-agains, and such that they attract. That doesn't mean that I want a religious group in "power", so to speak, but if they followed the Constitution, they wouldn't be able to instate a State Church, or any other major things that other parties cannot do. The fact of the matter is that there is a Christian majority in this country. They're going to group together. And, the other faith-based minorities will group together as well, even in political situations.  

[Dathu]

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Go into more detail? Give us some resources, articles, anything at all to work with here?

Yeah, I agree. I would like to know a little more about this.  

[caustic 0_0]

Anyone can get together a group that shares common political views. Maybe they all happen to be Atheist, maybe they're Jewish, or maybe they all happen to be Pink Unicorn lovers. Saying it's a certain kind of group doesn't tell you anything.
You'd have to judge based on each group's agenda/platform as to whether it was constitutional or not.  

[Taylr752]

stressed s**t lost the article links and Im to lazy to get them right now, Anyway I think it's unconstitutional because Religion seperate from Government.  

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LinkinPark7

stressed s**t lost the article links and Im to lazy to get them right now, Anyway I think it's unconstitutional because Religion seperate from Government.

Many political parties don't ever get into the government.  

[Taylr752]

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LinkinPark7

stressed s**t lost the article links and Im to lazy to get them right now, Anyway I think it's unconstitutional because Religion seperate from Government.

Many political parties don't ever get into the government.

sweatdrop most of them, and there hasnt ever been a independent party to win a presidency.  

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LinkinPark7

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LinkinPark7

stressed s**t lost the article links and Im to lazy to get them right now, Anyway I think it's unconstitutional because Religion seperate from Government.

Many political parties don't ever get into the government.

sweatdrop most of them, and there hasnt ever been a independent party to win a presidency.

Exactly. My point in saying that was that if they are not part of the government, how can it be unconstitutional for them to simply have a political party?  

[DivideByZero14]

The only reason political parties exist is because people realized that, if they didn't band together and arrange a little nepotism, candidates would have to compete solely with their qualifications and platform. Imagine! Elections based on competency rather than who bought a longer spot at the Super Bowl! The nerve! blaugh

Thus, although I may never see a candidate I like in office, I refuse to get down on their level; I don't plan to join a party. If these people want to put their two pence in for corruption, I don't care what name they do it under.  

[Taylr752]

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LinkinPark7

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LinkinPark7

stressed s**t lost the article links and Im to lazy to get them right now, Anyway I think it's unconstitutional because Religion seperate from Government.

Many political parties don't ever get into the government.

sweatdrop most of them, and there hasnt ever been a independent party to win a presidency.

Exactly. My point in saying that was that if they are not part of the government, how can it be unconstitutional for them to simply have a political party?

they are considered part of the government and there have been governers, mayors, etc. by indpendent parties and it's unfair to have 2 partys dominate the government, it's like a mofia  

[iviary]

LinkinPark7

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LinkinPark7

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LinkinPark7

stressed s**t lost the article links and Im to lazy to get them right now, Anyway I think it's unconstitutional because Religion seperate from Government.

Many political parties don't ever get into the government.

sweatdrop most of them, and there hasnt ever been a independent party to win a presidency.

Exactly. My point in saying that was that if they are not part of the government, how can it be unconstitutional for them to simply have a political party?

they are considered part of the government and there have been governers, mayors, etc. by indpendent parties and it's unfair to have 2 partys dominate the government, it's like a mofia

I don't think you understand what I'm saying. It is very difficult for a political party in itself to be unconstitutional. What the party DOES if they get in office is another matter. If they start attempting to change laws around, in an attempt to form a theocracy, then, that is certainly unconstitutional. However, another thing that would be unconstitutional is to stop a group of common-minded people from forming together, in a non-violent, non-harmful manner, with the hopes of achieving their common goals. A political party is not part of the government. People in the political party are part of the government. Yes, those people form together, in order to achieve the same goals, but a political party, in itself, is not part of the government. They are certainly an element in the political process, but we can't go around condemning forming political parties because they might sometime down the road attempt to do something unconstitutional.  

[Taylr752]

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LinkinPark7

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LinkinPark7

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LinkinPark7

stressed s**t lost the article links and Im to lazy to get them right now, Anyway I think it's unconstitutional because Religion seperate from Government.

Many political parties don't ever get into the government.

sweatdrop most of them, and there hasnt ever been a independent party to win a presidency.

Exactly. My point in saying that was that if they are not part of the government, how can it be unconstitutional for them to simply have a political party?

they are considered part of the government and there have been governers, mayors, etc. by indpendent parties and it's unfair to have 2 partys dominate the government, it's like a mofia

I don't think you understand what I'm saying. It is very difficult for a political party in itself to be unconstitutional. What the party DOES if they get in office is another matter. If they start attempting to change laws around, in an attempt to form a theocracy, then, that is certainly unconstitutional. However, another thing that would be unconstitutional is to stop a group of common-minded people from forming together, in a non-violent, non-harmful manner, with the hopes of achieving their common goals. A political party is not part of the government. People in the political party are part of the government. Yes, those people form together, in order to achieve the same goals, but a political party, in itself, is not part of the government. They are certainly an element in the political process, but we can't go around condemning forming political parties because they might sometime down the road attempt to do something unconstitutional.

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