What Is the Federalist Party?

President James buchanan was born in 17 91, just eight years after the revolutionary war ended. He got his start in politics by being elected to the pennsylvania house of representatives as a member of the federalist party. America's political system is structured in a way that it tends to generate two major political parties,. But these haven't always been the current democratic and republican parties. There have been three major periods in american party politics, each of which had two different rival parties.