What best explains the development of the two-party system in the United States?
a. The framers wanted competition between political parties.
b. The framers wanted to avoid the mistakes of Europe.
c. It was a compromise between a unitary system's efficiency and a multiparty system's diversity.
d. It developed in the struggle between Federalists and Democratic-Republicans.
d
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