Instructions: Choose one of the following minor parties and perform the following tasks on a separate sheet of paper.

Be sure to only choose one minor party and look at their website. If you have another minor party in mind you are more interested in, let me know and I will determine if you can use it to complete these activities. Green Party, Libertarian Party, Prohibition Party, Socialist Party, Communist Party, the Right to Life Party or the Reform Party 1. Which minor party are you evaluating? 2. What type of minor party is it? How did you determine this? 3. Does their website contain a party platform? If so, what issues are they concerned with? Identify three major policy areas that they are focused on and discuss what solutions they provide for the area (problem). 4. Are they planning on having a candidate run in the 2012 presidential elections? If so, who is it and has their person ran in the past on the partys ticket? 5. Discuss they type of role this partys candidates try to play in American politics. Have they had a tremendous impact on elections in the past 1520 years? If so, be specific.

Instructions: Choose one of the following minor parties and perform the following tasks on a separate sheet of paper. Be sure to only choose one minor party and look at their website. If you have another minor party in mind you are more interested in, let me know and I will determine if you can use it to complete these activities. Green Party, Libertarian Party, Prohibition Party, Socialist Party, Communist Party, the Right to Life Party or the Reform Party 1. Which minor party are you evaluating? 2. What type of minor party is it? How did you determine this? 3. Does their website contain a party platform? If so, what issues are they concerned with? Identify three major policy areas that they are focused on and discuss what solutions they provide for the area (problem). 4. Are they planning on having a candidate run in the 2012 presidential elections? If so, who is it and has their person ran in the past on the partys ticket? 5. Discuss they type of role this partys candidates try to play in American politics. Have they had a tremendous impact on elections in the past 1520 years? If so, be specific.