Manifesto 20832 226163810 2008-07-17T02:56:27Z NickBush24 309097 adding link to album by Roxy Music {{globalize}} {{Unreferenced|date=May 2007}} {{wiktionary|manifesto}} :''For the [[Roxy Music]] album, see [[Manifesto (album)]].'' A '''manifesto''' is a public declaration of principles and intentions, often [[Politics|political]] in nature, but may also be [[life stance]] related. However, manifestos relating to [[religious belief]] are rather referred to as [[credo]]. ==Etymology== Manifesto [mid 17th century] is derived from the [[italian language|italian]] word 'manifestare', which is Latin meaning 'make public'. == Electoral manifestos == In some [[parliamentary democracy|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 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. The [[presidential democracy]] equivalent is the [[party platform]]. ==Notable manifestos== {{Examplefarm}} ===Political=== Examples of notable manifestos: * ''The [[United States Declaration of Independence]]'' ([[1776]]) * ''The [[Amasya Circular]]'' ([[1919]]) *''The [[Cartagena Manifesto]]'' ([[1812]]), by [[Simón Bolívar]] *''The [[Tamworth Manifesto]]'' issued in [[1834]] by [[Sir Robert Peel]] *''[[The Communist Manifesto]]'' ([[1848]]), by [[Karl Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels]] *''The [[Anarchist Manifesto]]'' ([[1850]]), by [[Anselme Bellegarrigue]]. *''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 [[Urmia Manifesto of the United Free Assyria]], ([[1917]]) by Dr. [[Freydun Atturaya]] *''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 [[Manifest PKWN|PKWN manifesto]]'' ([[1944]]), by [[Polish Committee of National Liberation]] *''The [[Objectives Resolution|Objectives Resolution of Pakistan]]'' ([[1949]]), by [[Liaquat Ali Khan]] * The ''[[Southern Manifesto]]'' ([[1956]]), opposing the Supreme Court's decision in ''[[Brown v. Board of Education]]'' *'The ''Capitalist Manifesto'' ([[1958]]), proposing the Democratization of Capital, including employee and citizen's ownership by [[Louis Kelso]] and [[Mortimer Adler]] (see ''[[Binary Economics]]') *''The [[Manifesto of the 121]]'' against the [[Algerian War]] *''The [[Sharon Statement]]'' ([[1960]]), by [[William F. Buckley, Jr.]] ([[Young Americans for Freedom]]) *''The [[Port Huron Statement]]'' ([[1962]]), by [[Tom Hayden]] et al. *''The [[SCUM Manifesto]]'' ([[1968]]), by [[Valerie Solanas]] *''A Christian Manifesto'' ([[1982]]), by [[Francis Schaeffer]] *''[[Manifesto against conscription and the military system]]'' ([[1993]]) by Christian Bartolf (Gandhi Information Center) *''[[wikisource:Industrial Society and Its Future|Industrial Society and Its Future]]'' a.k.a. ''The Unabomber's Manifesto'' ([[1995]]) by Unabomber, [[Theodore Kaczynski]] *''The Hedonistic Imperative'' by [[David Pearce]] *''The [[Libre Manifesto]]'', by the [[Libre Society]] *''Life on Earth'' (2002) by [[Luke Helder]] *''The Free Culture Manifesto'' ([[2004]]), by [[FreeCulture.org]] *''[[Manifesto on Freedom and Democracy for Vietnam]]'' ([[2006]]) by [[Bloc 8406]] *''The [[Euston Manifesto]]'' ([[2006]]) by Euston Manifesto Group * ''[[The Revolution: A Manifesto]]'' ([[2008]]), by [[Dr. Ron Paul]] ===Artistic=== *''The [[Futurist Manifesto]]'' ([[1909]]), by [[Filippo Tommaso Marinetti]] *''The [[Surrealist Manifesto]]'' ([[1924]]), by [[André Breton]] *''[[Dogma 95]]'' (1995) by [[Lars von Trier]], [[Thomas Vinterberg]], [[Kristian Levring]] and [[Søren Kragh-Jacobsen]] *''[http://www.wernerherzog.com/main/de/html/news/Minnesota_Declaration.htm Minnesota declaration]: truth and fact in documentary cinema'' ([[1999]]), by [[Werner Herzog]] *'' Blast, the [[Vorticist]]'' manifesto, by [[Wyndham Lewis]] ===Technology=== *''[[A Cyborg Manifesto]]'' ([[1985]]), by [[Donna Haraway]] *''The [[GNU Manifesto]]'' (1985), by [[Richard Stallman]], an explanation and definition of the goals of the [[GNU Project]] *''[[wikisource:Industrial Society and Its Future|Industrial Society and Its Future]], ''otherwise known as the Unabomber Manifesto ([[1995]]), By [[Ted Kaczynski]] *''The [[Hacker's Manifesto]]'' ([[1986]]), By [[The Mentor]] aka [[Loyd Blankenship]] *''[[Pluginmanifesto]]'' by Ana Kronschnabl, a [[Web film]] statement *''[[The Cathedral and the Bazaar]]'' ([[1997]]), by [[Eric S. Raymond]] *''[[The Cluetrain Manifesto]]'' ([[1999]]) by Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, [[Doc Searls]] and [[David Weinberger]] *''The [[Hacktivismo Declaration]]'' ([[2001]]) by [[Oxblood Ruffin]] ([[Hacktivismo]]) *''The [[Agile Manifesto]]'' (2001) by 17 software professionals *''[[The Third Manifesto]]'' (1995), by [[Christopher J. Date]] and [[Hugh Darwen]], a proposal for [[relational database management system]] ==External links== *[http://www.manifestos.net Manifestos.net] *[http://www.labour-party.org.uk/manifestos/ An archive of Labour electoral manifestos from 1900-present] *[http://www.conservativemanifesto.com/ An archive of Conservative electoral manifestos from 1900-present] *[http://www.libdemmanifesto.com/ An archive of Liberal/SDP/Liberal Democrat electoral manifestos from 1900-present] [[Category:Political media]] [[cs:Manifest]] [[da:Manifest]] [[es:Manifiesto]] [[eo:Manifesto]] [[fa:مرامنامه]] [[fr:Manifeste]] [[ko:매니페스토]] [[id:Manifesto]] [[is:Stefnuyfirlýsing]] [[it:Manifesto (programma)]] [[he:מניפסט]] [[nl:Manifest]] [[ja:マニフェスト]] [[no:Manifest]] [[pt:Manifesto]] [[ru:Манифест]] [[sv:Manifest]] [[tl:Manipesto]] [[tr:Manifesto]]