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Question by Chi Guy: Why do political news pundits often state "we have a two party system" when referring to the US government? Can anyone show me the "two party system" anywhere in the US Constitution? Best answer for Why do political news pundits often state "we have a two party system" when referring to the US government?:
Answer by Wounded Duck
Newsflash: Something need not appear in the Constitution to be true.
Answer by limbaaa told me tosay
are you kidding me we got a hundred party system in the senate and a 263 party system in congress and the white house just parties all the time
Answer by Obitrice
It's not in the constitution but it is a democrat and republican party system. Why what do you think it is? Sure their are independents, green peace, and now the tea party but you can't win unless you run under D or R
Answer by Saru-kun
Because it is a reality that no other party has gained the strength to make it more than a 2 party system.
Answer by barry
dunno, don't care, there are many other parties in our country and they do not have enough people and support to do much for example look at these guys http://www.cpusa.org/ there around they got people they try to get there people into goverment but they just can't seem to beat the republicans and democrats in any election. one day they might but till then were a two party system till another group has enough support to acuatlly win an election,
Answer by Greg
It's not anywhere in the Const itution. Yes, the words "two party system" are technically wrong, but it's obvious they are referring to Democrats and Republicans. What two parties make up the far majorities of the Congress and Senate?
Answer by Lenny
its a statement, the constitution does not define political parties
Answer by Junior Soprano
Because when it comes to the top political figures in office, a very high % are either Republicans or Democrats.
Answer by Mike W
Officially we have a no party system, and our first President didn't belong to any party. We have many political parties, and if you look to past Congresses we have had Representatives and Senators from as many as 5 parties in Congress at one time. As it is, the Democrats and the Republicans are the dominant parties, but that doesn't mean that it can never change, and it doesn't mean we have an official 2 party system.
Answer by oohhbother
The Republicans and Democrats have pretty much staked out both sides of the major issue that is politics in America : the size and power of the US government and it' s relationship to business and the public. Which other side of this issue is there?
Answer by ♥♪BlôcК€d by côwardȿ♥♪
I don't think it's in the constitution but dem and repub have been at it for years. ã
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1 of 14. A Turkish military post is seen on the Turkish-Syrian border near the village of Hacipasa in Hatay province, southern Turkey October 9, 2012.
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HACIPASA, Turkey |
HACIPASA, Turkey (Reuters) - NATO said on Tuesday it had drawn up plans to defend Turkey if necessary against any further spillover of violence from Syria's border areas where rebels and government forces are fighting for control.
Rebel suicide bombers struck at President Bashar al-Assad's heartland, attacking an Air Force Intelligence compound on the edge of Damascus, insurgents said. Activists living nearby said the bombing caused at least 100 casualties among security personnel, based on the ambulances that rushed to the scene.
"Assad...is only able to stand up with crutches," Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, once a close ally of Assad, told a meeting of his ruling AK Party.
"He will be finished when the crutches fall away."
Erdogan, reacting to six consecutive days where shells fired from Syrian soil have landed on Turkish territory, has warned Ankara will not shrink from war if forced to act. But Ankara has also made clear it would be reluctant to mount any major operation on Syrian soil, and then only with international support.
Syrian forces and rebels have clashed at several sites close to the Turkish border in the last week. There has been no sign of any major breakthrough by either side, though activists said rebels killed at least 40 soldiers on Saturday in a 12-hour battle to take the village of Khirbet al-Joz.
It was not clear whether the shells landing on the Turkish side were aimed at Turkey or simply the result of government troops overshooting as they attacked rebels to their north.
NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said in Brussels the 28-member military alliance hoped a way could be found to stop tensions escalating on the border.
"We have all necessary plans in place to protect and defend Turkey if necessary," he said.
Just outside Hacipasa, a village nestled among olive groves in Turkey's Hatay border province, the sound of mortar fire could be heard every 10-15 minutes from around the Syrian town of Azmarin. A Syrian helicopter flew high over the border.
Villagers used ropes and small metal boats to ferry the injured across a river no more than 10 meters wide into Turkey. On the Syrian side, men wearing surgical masks and gloves tended to the wounded on mats laid on the ground.
"They are burning houses in the town," said Musana Barakat, 46, an Azmarin resident who makes frequent trips between the two countries, pointing at plumes of thick smoke in the distance.
"There are rebels hiding in and around the town and they are going to make a push tonight to drive Assad's forces out," he said, a Syrian passport sticking out of his shirt pocket.
A crowd gathered around a saloon car, the blood-stained body of a man who had been pulled wounded from the fighting slumped across its back seat. Those with him said he had been rescued alive but died after being brought over the border.
Turkish President Abdullah Gul said on Monday the "worst-case scenarios" were now playing out in Syria and Turkey would do everything necessary to protect itself.
Gul and Erdogan, in seeking Western and Arab support, have repeatedly warned of the dangers of fighting in Syria spilling over into a sectarian war engulfing the entire region.
Turkey's chief of general staff General Necdet Ozel flew by helicopter to several bases in Hatay province on Tuesday, part of Turkey's 900-km (560-mile) border with Syria.
U.N. special envoy Lakhdar Brahimi will go to Syria soon to try to persuade President Bashar al-Assad's government to call an immediate ceasefire.
SUICIDE BOMBERS
The militant Islamist group al-Nusra Front said it had mounted the suicide attack on the air force intelligence building in Damascus because it was used a centre for torture and repression in the crackdown on the revolt against Assad.
"Big shockwaves shattered windows and destroyed shop facades. It felt as if a bomb exploded inside every house in the area," said one resident of the suburb of Harasta, where the compound was located.
But much of the fighting in the 18-month-old uprising has concentrated around the border area.
The shelling of the Turkish town of Akcakale last Wednesday, which killed five civilians, marked a sharp escalation.
Turkey has been responding in kind since then to gunfire or mortar bombs flying over the border and has bolstered its military presence along the frontier.
"We are living in constant fear. The mortar sounds have really picked up since this morning. The children are really frightened," said Hali Nacioglu, 43, a farmer from the village of Yolazikoy near Hacipasa.
A mortar bomb landed in farmland near Hacipasa on Monday.
Unlike the flat terrain around Akcakale, the border area in Hatay is marked by rolling hills with heavy vegetation. Syrian towns and villages, including Azmarin, are clearly visible just a few kilometers away.
"It's only right that Turkey should respond if it gets fired on but we really don't want war to break out. We want this to finish as soon as possible," said Abidin Tunc, 49, a tobacco farmer also from Yolazikoy.
NATO member Turkey was once an ally of Assad's but turned against him after his violent response to the uprising, in which activists say 30,000 people have died.
Turkey has nearly 100,000 Syrian refugees in camps on its territory, has given sanctuary to rebel leaders and has led calls for Assad to quit.
(Additional reporting by Khaled Yacoub Oweis in Amman, Adrian Croft in Brussels, John Irish in Paris; Writing by Nick Tattersall; Editing by Daren Butler and Ralph Boulton)
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