The single candidate voting method that prevails by far is A first-past-the-post (also called "plural", "relative majority", or "winner takes all"), in which each voter votes on a choice, and the choice that receives the most votes wins, even if it receives less than the majority of votes combined.
This sort of system tends to quickly create favorites and concentrate the options so the votes "won't be lost" during the election by trying to elect a candidate that is less known (many candidates are prematurely dropped for the perceived notion of "not-standing-a-change" against bigger parties).
The kind of voting system that normally lead to a two-party political system would be proportional representation system. With this system, <span>several members of parliament are to be elected per </span>constituency.<span> Parties are assigned parliamentary seats proportionally to the number of votes they get.</span>
it was too weak because they couldn't enforce their laws and therefore they had no power and they had to borrow money to fight in the revolutionary war
