Political platform

The first known use of the word platform was in 1535. The word platform comes from Middle French plate-forme, literally meaning "flat form". The political meaning of the word to reflect "statement of party politics" is from 1803, probably originally an image of a literal platform on which politicians gather, stand, and make their appeals. ==Fulfilling platforms==

party manifesto – Hungary, 2024 A 2017 study in the American Journal of Political Science that analyzed 12 countries (Austria, Bulgaria, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, and United States) found that political parties in government fulfill their election promises to voters to a considerable extent. ==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 pamphlet Common Sense (1776) advocated freedom from the rule of Great Britain for the American Colonists and proposed a constitution for the new United States • The Federalist under "Publius", the collective pseudonym of Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay • Tamworth Manifesto in 1834, a political manifesto issued by Sir Robert Peel, 2nd Baronet, in a run-up to the British general election of 1835 that laid down the principles upon which the modern Conservative Party was founded from the old Tory party. • Friedrich Engels and Karl Marx's 1848 Communist Manifesto, called for the abolition of private property and applied a scientific understanding to the development of society through socialism into a society without money-usage, social classes, or state coercion, which would be called "communism" • The 1875 Gotha Program of the recently united Social Democratic Party of Germany, subject to a famous critique by Karl Marx • Erfurt Program of the Social Democratic Party of Germany in 1891 • Bolshevism of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (1916) • Franklin Roosevelt's 1932 New Deal • The 1948 United States Democratic Party's platform including civil rights • John F. Kennedy's 1960 New Frontier • Lyndon Baines Johnson's Great Society, 1964 • 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 • Clause IV Socialism, a focus of debate in the UK Labour Party • The Heritage Foundation 2024 Project 2025 form the 1912 U.S. Progressive Party platform ==See also==