Sortarican
Mon Dec 29th, 2008, 09:31 AM
Hope you're having a great one.
If I had the time I would wax on philosophically for a couple of paragraphs
but actually have work to do today so I'll have to cut-n-paste:
Manifesto
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A manifesto is a public declaration of principles and intentions, often political (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics) in nature, but may also be life stance (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_stance) related. However, manifestos relating to religious belief (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_belief) are rather referred to as credo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credo).
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[edit (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Manifesto&action=edit§ion=1)] Etymology
Manifesto [mid 17th century] is derived from the italian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_language) word 'manifestare', which is Latin meaning 'make public'.
[edit (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Manifesto&action=edit§ion=2)] Electoral manifestos
In some parliamentary democracies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_democracy), 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 are 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 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.
An alternative term, used especially in North America (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America), is party platform (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_platform).
If I had the time I would wax on philosophically for a couple of paragraphs
but actually have work to do today so I'll have to cut-n-paste:
Manifesto
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A manifesto is a public declaration of principles and intentions, often political (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Politics) in nature, but may also be life stance (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_stance) related. However, manifestos relating to religious belief (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_belief) are rather referred to as credo (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credo).
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[edit (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Manifesto&action=edit§ion=1)] Etymology
Manifesto [mid 17th century] is derived from the italian (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_language) word 'manifestare', which is Latin meaning 'make public'.
[edit (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Manifesto&action=edit§ion=2)] Electoral manifestos
In some parliamentary democracies (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parliamentary_democracy), 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 are 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 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.
An alternative term, used especially in North America (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_America), is party platform (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Party_platform).