Although the Founding Fathers of the United States did not originally intend for American politics to be <answer>partisan</answer>, early political controversies in the 1790s over the extent of federal government powers saw the emergence of two proto-political parties- the Federalist Party and the Democratic-Republican Party, which were championed by Framers Alexander Hamilton and James Madison, respectively. However, a consensus reached on these issues ended party politics in 1816 for a decade, a period commonly known as the Era of Good Feelings.
What did the founding fathers not intend American politics to become?
partisan