Section: Social Studies

2) "Without our two great political parties cutting across economic and geographic interests, democracy as we know it could never have been made to function.” The author of this statement probably meant to suggest that

1. political parties in the United States tend to represent sectional interests
2. each political party appeals to a different social class
   
3. there is no significant difference between the Democratic and
   Republican parties
   
4. an important feature of the U.S. political system is the broadly based appeal of the two political parties
   
5. only a two-party system can function in a democracy