Manifesto

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

Examples of 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 polygamy, 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 Cannibal Manifesto (1928), by Oswald de Andrade
 * 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 Port Huron Statement (1962), by Tom Hayden (Students for a Democratic Society)
 * The Plan Espiritual de Aztlan (1968), issued by Rodolfo Gonzales' Crusade for Justice, considered the manifesto of the Chicano Movement.
 * The SCUM Manifesto (1968), by Valerie Solanas, a radical feminist manifesto
 * A Christian Manifesto (1981) by Francis Schaeffer
 * The Hacker Manifesto (1986), by The Mentor
 * The GNU Manifesto (1985), by Richard Stallman
 * A Manifesto for Cyborgs (1985), by Donna Haraway
 * The Funkupagan Manifesto (1990), by Robert 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
 * 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 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 by Breton
 * The Euston Manifesto, by Euston Manifesto Group

Electoral Manifestos
In the United Kingdom, 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 an 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.