Political Party Platforms. Democratic Party Platforms: 2012 Democratic Party Platform. Moving America Forward Four years ago, Democrats, independents, and many Republicans came together as Americans to move our country forward.
We were in the midst of the greatest economic crisis since the Great Depression, the previous administration had put two wars on our nation's credit card, and the American Dream had slipped out of reach for too many. Today, our economy is growing again, al-Qaeda is weaker than at any point since 9/11, and our manufacturing sector is growing for the first time in more than a decade. But there is more we need to do, and so we come together again to continue what we started. We gather to reclaim the basic bargain that built the largest middle class and the most prosperous nation on Earth - the simple principle that in America, hard work should pay off, responsibility should be rewarded, and each one of us should be able to go as far as our talent and drive take us.
This is not another trivial political argument. But there is more to be done. Republican Party Platforms: 2012 Republican Party Platform. We Believe in America: 2012 REPUBLICAN PLATFORM This platform is dedicated with appreciation and reverence for: The wisdom of the Framersof the United States Constitution,who gave us a Republic,as Benjamin Franklin cautioned,if we can keep it.
[Paid for by the Committee on Arrangements for the 2012 Republican National Convention Not Authorized By Any Candidate Or Candidate's Committee www.gopconvention2012.com] Preamble The 2012 Republican Platform is a statement of who we are and what we believe as a Party and our vision for a stronger and freer America. The pursuit of opportunity has defined America from our very beginning. Today, that American Dream is at risk. Our nation faces unprecedented uncertainty with great fiscal and economic challenges, and under the current Administration has suffered through the longest and most severe economic downturn since the Great Depression. Constitutional Union Party Platform of 1860. Whereas, Experience has demonstrated that Platforms adopted by the partisan Conventions of the country have had the effect to mislead and deceive the people, and at the same time to widen the political divisions of the country, by the creation and encouragement of geographical and sectional parties; therefore APP Note: The American Presidency Project used the first day of the national nominating convention as the "date" of this platform since the original document is undated.
The spelling of "tranquillity" near the end of the second paragraph reproduces the spelling used in Greeley and Cleveland, A Political Textbook for 1860 Citation: Minor/Third Party Platforms: "Constitutional Union Party Platform of 1860," May 9, 1860. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Progressive Party Platform of 1924. The great issue before the American people today is the control of government and industry by private monopoly.
For a generation the people have struggled patiently, in the face of repeated betrayals by successive administrations, to free themselves from this intolerable power which has been undermining representative government. Through control of government, monopoly has steadily extended its absolute dominion to every basic industry. In violation of law, monopoly has crushed competition, stifled private initiative and independent enterprise, and without fear of punishment now exacts extortionate profits upon every necessity of life consumed by the public.
Libertarian Party Platform of 1972. Adopted in Convention, Denver, Colorado, June 17-18, 1972 Adopted unanimously by the delegates to the first national convention of the Libertarian Party, on June 17, 1972.
We, the members of the Libertarian Party, challenge the cult of the omnipotent state, and defend the rights of the individual. We hold that each individual has the right to exercise sole dominion over his own life, and has the right to live his life in whatever manner he chooses, so long as he does not forcibly interfere with the equal right of others to live their lives in whatever manner they choose. Whig Party Platform of 1856. Resolved, That the Whigs of the United States are assembled here by reverence for the Constitution, and unalterable attachment to the National Union, and a fixed determination to do all in their power to preserve it for themselves and posterity.
They have no new principles to announce—no new platform to establish, but are content broadly to rest where their fathers have rested upon the Constitution of the United States, wishing no safer guide, no higher law. States Rights Democratic Party. Unanimously Adopted at Oklahoma City, August 14, 1948.
Populist Party Platform of 1892.