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A political party platform (American English), party program, or party manifesto (preferential term in British and often Commonwealth English) is a formal set of principal goals which are supported by a political party or individual candidate, to appeal to the general public, for the ultimate purpose of garnering the general public's support and votes about complicated topics or issues.
Better dead than Red – anti-Communist slogan; Black is beautiful – political slogan of a cultural movement that began in the 1960s by African Americans; Black Lives Matter – decentralized social movement that began in 2013 following the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the shooting death of African American teen Trayvon Martin; popularized in the United States following 2014 protests in ...
Term Description Examples Autocracy: Autocracy is a system of government in which supreme power (social and political) is concentrated in the hands of one person or polity, whose decisions are subject to neither external legal restraints nor regularized mechanisms of popular control (except perhaps for the implicit threat of a coup d'état or mass insurrection).
Party platforms (3 C, 44 P) R. Manifestos of Russian emperors (5 P) S. Signatories of the 1971 Manifesto of the 343 (56 P) Pages in category "Political manifestos"
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Also called the Blue Dog Democrats or simply the Blue Dogs. A caucus in the United States House of Representatives comprising members of the Democratic Party who identify as centrists or conservatives and profess an independence from the leadership of both major parties. The caucus is the modern development of a more informal grouping of relatively conservative Democrats in U.S. Congress ...
Starting from the 2016 platform, the party formally supported abolishing the death penalty, stating that it is a cruel and unusual punishment, and that it does not deter crime. [14] [59] The 2024 platform is the first since the 2004 platform, that the platform doesn't mention the death penalty, and the first since 2016 not to call for abolition ...
In 2020, the Republican Party decided not to write a platform for that presidential election cycle; [151] instead, the party simply expressing its support for Donald Trump's agenda, [152] and criticizing "the media" for biased reporting. [153] This was cited by critics as an example of how the Republican Party "became a cult of personality ...