Party Platform - Famous Political Platforms

Famous Political Platforms

  • The Ninety-Five Theses of Martin Luther in 1517, opposed practices of the Catholic Church at that time (both a religion and a political territory), and led to the establishment of Protestantism
  • Thomas Paine's 1776 Common Sense (pamphlet) advocated freedom from British rule for the American Colonists, and proposed a constitution for the new nation
  • Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx's 1848 Communist Manifesto
  • Franklin Roosevelt's 1932 New Deal
  • The 1948 United States Democratic Party's platform including civil rights
  • Lyndon Baines Johnson's War on Poverty, 1965
  • The 1993 Liberal Party of Canada Red Book
  • The 1994 Republican congressional Contract with America
  • Mike Harris's 1995 Common Sense Revolution
  • 100-Hour Plan of the United States Democratic Party in 2006

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