The framers of the Constitution dealt with political parties in which of the following ways?
A) They did not mention political parties in the Constitution.
B) They established specific protections for political parties in the Constitution.
C) They constitutionalized the two-party system in the Constitution by establishing the Federalist and Democratic Republican parties.
D) None of the above.
E) They provided for it in the free exercise clause of the First Amendment.
A
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