Every citizen should study the ethics of his government, think for himself, and form his own opinion.
A person with no opinion on public affairs is a coward and unpatriotic.
Our nation depends largely upon moral and cultured people who will study the issues of the day and express themselves in positive terms on what they deem best for the nation and its government.
Organization is a number of people systematically united for some end. It is through organization that political parties become effective.
Political parties arose after the adoption of the Constitution. They are organized for national, state and local campaigns, and not originally a part of the government, but as we grew and the population became greater there arose different political parties. Every district, village, town and city has its permanent local campaign committees in elections, beside the state and national committees, which make a very complete organization.
The duty of the permanent committees is to keep the machinery of the party working. Really the permanent committees do the hard work in politics. They organize political clubs, solicit funds, issue calls for conventions, urge people to register and vote and in many other ways keep up the interest of the party.
Since the adoption of the Constitution there have been two principal parties advocating different principles.
The first parties were known as the Federalist and anti-Federalist.
The two great dominant parties now in the United States—the Democratic and Republican parties.
Our Constitution did not provide us with laws as to the way of selecting candidates for office, but just as soon as political parties came into existence, nominations followed.