Question

do political parties strengthen or weaken American democracy? in what ways?

Answer 1

Political parties form an inevitable aspect of democracy. Once people get involved in the political process, they will find others with a common interest and of course group together to push the common interest. They can either strengthen or weaken the process depending on how they act.

This relates to how these organized groups are capable of shaping and influencing broader society's collective consensus-building and decision-making processes, particularly in the light of the internal collective decision-making processes that those groups experience first. It is these issues that make me a vocal supporter of voting reform. It is all well and good for organized groups to decide who they will support commonly with their votes, but successful candidates need to work through a system that forces them to appeal to the largest possible proportion of the electorate on the public process from the outset and show support from more than 50 percent of the electorate in order to win an election

The United States Constitution was clearly intended to restrict the faction's undue influence in government; we need to make sure that the voting systems we use equally restrict faction's undue influence in elections. While protecting from government prosecution & incarceration due to one's religion, public comments, and the use of technology to publicize one's ideas widely, the latter two clauses expressly guarantee the freedom of American people to work in communities and try to reform the law and influence policy.