In 1892, farmers fed up with the laissez faire attitude of the Federal Government, the falling prices of the goods they worked so hard to produce, and the hole of debt they were digging themselves into, farmers in the Midwest formed the Populist Party. Their main goals consisted of reducing tariff...

Though the candidates of the third party have little to no chance of winning a presidential election, they are of great importance when it comes to which of the standard two parties, Democratic and Republican, will win the election. Several factors come into place for a third party to influence an ...

INTRODUCTION The political affairs of the world in eighteenth century left much to be desired by today's modern democratic standards. Most dramatic regime changes following a revolution or war are quite easy to explain. France in 1789 was seething with discontent at a corrupt and insensitiv...