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clogic-191773	Crumpacker, Tom	Democracy and the Multiparty Political System	2019	13	.pdf	application/pdf	6070	234	45	In the distant past, political parties were not only electoral, they were movements -- of people with similar values who sought by grouping together to use the political system to bring about social change in line with their values. The birth and growth of alternative US value based parties is prohibited by winner take all elections, ballot access laws and numerous other requirements engrained in our state and federal laws over the past century, lack of funding (no business or even union or interest group will contribute to a party having no ability to elect candidates), and primarily by keeping them out of the public debate and discussion by a Catch 22.	cache/clogic-191773.pdf	txt/clogic-191773.txt