In this episode, Presidential Politics for America continues its strenuous trek through American political history. If you didn't listen to Parts I-III of "How Our Parties Switched," you should start there.
This week, in Parts IV-VI, PPFA recaps important details from last episode (2:10); summarizes the disagreements over the Constitution, as reflected in the debate between federalists and antifederalists (7:00); shows how those two factions evolved into the first official parties, which in time evolve into the Democratic and Republican parties (17:00); and finally takes a look at how the Democratic and Republican parties looked in the late 1800s and early 1900s (28:00). The episode ends on the eve of How Our Parties Switched, which will be the subject of next episode's Part VII--the wildly overdue conclusion of the series.
