This is a very cursory analysis. Has there ever been any polity in all the history of the world that did not have parties? They had parties in Ancient Athens and Sparta. In Ancient Rome. That's like saying a bunch of people can all agree on the same thing all the time when we all know that even between just two people it is never the case that there is absolute agreement. If you ask any n people their opinion on a question you'll get n plus 1 opinions, at a minimum.
Before Jefferson even got back from France there were Federalists who were for the Constitution and Anti-federalists who were against it. Before the Revolution was over there were plenty of factions within the Continental Congress.
Differences of opinion and therefore parties are an inevitability of human existence, and that's as it should be. Nobody should be forced to give up their opinion just because someone else has a different one. Do you know what that's called? Dictatorship.
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