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Delegates in many programs meet as parties and craft their own unique party platforms from scratch. Some parties carry their platforms over from year to year. Although most programs assign citizens randomly to a political party, a few programs have an ideological sorting mechanism to place delegates in a political party with others holding ...
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.
The 1969 Students for a Democratic Society National Convention held in June of that year in Chicago, Illinois was the final convention held by the Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). The gathering, which took place over June 18–22, was one of four conventions that officers and members of SDS attended each year.
As the central beneficiaries of public schools, youth are also advocating for student-led school change and education reform through student activism and meaningful student involvement. [13] There are structural inequalities that keep youth from engaging in political talk and action on school grounds or the public domain.
The 1992 Republican Party platform adopted support for continuing to exclude homosexuals from the military as a matter of good order and discipline. [100] The support for the exclusion of homosexuals from military service would remain in the Republican Party platform until the 2012 Republican Party platform, which removed that language from it ...
Scrapping the two-child limit on certain benefits and reforming Carer's Allowance; Increasing the early years pupil premium by triple to £1,000; Speeding up the courts process; Recognising non-binary identities and banning conversion therapy; Granting 16-year-olds the vote and introducing proportional representation; Rejoining the European ...
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The party's 2012 platform calls for an "all of the above" energy policy including clean energy, natural gas, and domestic oil, while wanting to become energy independent. [26] The party has supported higher taxes on oil companies and increased regulations coal power plants, favoring a policy of reducing long-term reliance on fossil fuels.