...observe that political parties "are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent energies by which cunning, ambitious and unprincipled men will...to usurp for themselves the reins of government." "The inevitability could not be undone" and, as Munro says, the calls for a partyless politics "fell...

...counseled the people against the formation of factions and political parties, stating that while they may "now and then answer popular ends, they are likely,...and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the 176 power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government." Furthermore, the formation...