In 1792, James Madison wrote that in "every political society, parties are unavoidable." How does the crisis that followed the application of Missouri for statehood relate to this statement?
A) It shows that Madison understood that the institution of slavery would be at the core of the nation's greatest conflict.
B) It proves the statement false, because a compromise was easily worked out.
C) The statement is irrelevant, because parties were not involved in the crisis.
D) The statement does not apply, because the Missouri crisis was about economics, not politics.
E) It demonstrates the truth of the statement, because new factions emerged in response to the crisis.
E
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