<span>The Populist Party, in U.S. history, was a political party formed primarily to express the agrarian protest of the late 19th century. </span><span>The party adopted a platform calling for free coinage of silver, abolition of national banks, a subtreasury scheme or some similar system, a graduated income tax, plenty of paper money, government ownership of all forms of transportation and communication, election of Senators by direct vote of the people, non-ownership of land by foreigners, civil service reform, a working day of eight hours, postal banks, pensions, revision of the law of contracts, and reform of immigration regulations.</span>
B. Providing national defense
The U.S government was created to serve the interests of its people key of which is to protect and defend its people from all enemies, whether domestic or foreign. This is the basic function of government
