Manifesto

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A manifesto is a public declaration of principles and intentions. Manifestos are often political in nature.

Examples of notable manifestos:

The Cartagena Manifesto (1812), by Simón Bolívar
The Communist Manifesto (1848), by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
The Humanist Manifesto I, II and III
The 1890 Manifesto dealing with plural marriage, issued by Wilford Woodruff as President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
The Futurist Manifesto (1909), by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
The Fascist manifesto (1919), by Fasci di Combattimento
The Manifesto of the Anti-Fascist Intellectuals (1925), by Benedetto Croce
The Cannibal Manifesto (1928), by Oswald de Andrade
The Regina Manifesto (1933), by the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
A Christian Manifesto (1934) by Edwin Lewis
The PKWN manifesto (1944), by Polish Committee of National Liberation
The Sharon Statement (1960), by William F. Buckley, Jr. (Young Americans for Freedom)
The GNU Manifesto (1985), by Richard Stallman, an explanation and definition of the goals of the GNU Project
The Hacker's Manifesto (1986), By The Mentor aka Loyd Blankenship
The Port Huron Statemeert Delford Brown
Manifesto against conscription and the military system (1993) by Christian Bartolf (Gandhi Information Center)
Industrial Society and Its Future (1995) by Unabomber Theodore Kaczynski
Dogma 95 (1995) by Lars von Trier, Thomas Vinterberg, Kristian Levring and Søren Kragh-Jacobsen
The Third Manifesto (1995), by Christopher J. Date and Hugh Darwen's, a proposal for truly relational database management systems
Pluginmanifesto by Ana Kronschnabl, a Web film statement
The Open Source Manifesto (1997), by Eric S. Raymond
A Punk Manifesto (1998) by Greg Graffin
The Cluetrain Manifesto (1999) by Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls and David Weinberger
The Cyberpunk Manifesto by Манифест Киберпанка
The Hacktivismo Declaration (2001) by Oxblood Ruffin (Hacktivismo)
The Hedonistic Imperative by David Pearce
The Libre Manifesto, by the Libre Society
The Surrealist Manifesto (1924) by Breton
The Euston Manifesto, by Euston Manifesto Group
Manifesto on Freedom and Democracy for Vietnam (2006) by Bloc 8406
The Mozilla Manifesto (2007), by Mitchell Baker

[edit] Electoral manifestos

In the Philippines, and in some other parliamentary democracies, political parties prepare electoral manifestos which set out both their strategic direction and outlines of prospective legislation should they win sufficient support in an election to serve in government. Legislative proposals which have featured in the manifesto of a party which has won an election are often regarded as having superior legitimacy to other measures which a governing party may introduce for consideration by the legislature. Although, in recent decades the status of electoral manifestos in the UK has diminished somewhat due to a significant tendency for winning parties to, following the election, either ignore, indefinitely delay, or even outright reject manifesto policies which were popular with the public.

The presidential democracy equivalent is the party platform.