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【英专八级听力训练】Mini-lecture Two-party system(4/6)

As it has been clearly showed that one of the great consequences of the system is that it produces majorities automatically.

Because there are only two competitors in the running, it is almost inevitable that one will receive a majority.

Moreover, the system tends slightly to exaggerate the victory of the winning party.

This is not always true, but the strong tendency to produce majorities is built into the system.

In over 200 years of constitutional history, Americans have learned much about the way in which the system can be managed so as to make possible the peaceful transfer of power from one party to the other.

At the level of presidential elections, the party in power has been overturned by the party out of power 19 times, almost once a decade.

In the election of 1860, the political system broke down, and the Civil War, the worst disaster in American history, resulted.

Our history justifies our confidence in the system but also shows that it is not foolproof.

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