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

Examples of notable 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 plural marriage, 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 Manifesto of the Anti-Fascist Intellectuals (1925), by Benedetto Croce
• The Cannibal Manifesto (1928), by Oswald de Andrade
• The Regina Manifesto (1933), by the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation
• 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 GNU Manifesto (1985), by Richard Stallman, an explanation and definition of the goals of the GNU Project
• The Hacker's Manifesto (1986), By The Mentor aka Loyd Blankenship
• The Port Huron Statemeert 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
• The Third Manifesto (1995), by Christopher J. Date and Hugh Darwen's, a proposal for truly relational database management systems
• 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 Cluetrain Manifesto (1999) by Rick Levine, Christopher Locke, Doc Searls and David Weinberger
• 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 (1924) by Breton
• The Euston Manifesto, by Euston Manifesto Group
• Manifesto on Freedom and Democracy for Vietnam (2006) by Bloc 8406
• The Mozilla Manifesto (2007), by Mitchell Baker

In the Philippines, 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 a 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.

• Art manifesto

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