Editing Manifesto

{{Short description|Published declaration of principles and intentions}}
{{For2|the set of goals published by a political party|Party platform|other uses}}
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[[File:Domingo, J. Manifiesto (1815).jpg|thumb|Spanish manifesto against the invasion of Spain during the [[Peninsular War]]]]
A '''manifesto''' is a written declaration of the intentions, motives, or views of the issuer, be it an individual, group, [[Party platform|political party]], or government.<ref>[http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/manifesto Merriam-Webster online dictionary definition of Manifesto] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120808022742/http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/manifesto |date=August 8, 2012}}.</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.seophonist-wahl.de/ |title=SEOphonist &#124; die SEOphonisten Wahl 2013 |access-date=2013-09-14 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130912054800/http://www.seophonist-wahl.de/ |archive-date=September 12, 2013 |language=de}}, article on "Wahlprogramm", literally "election programme".</ref><ref>[http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/manifesto Dictionary.com definition of Manifesto] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120806095123/http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/manifesto |date=August 6, 2012}}.</ref><ref>
David Robertson, ''The Routledge Dictionary of Politics'', Edition 3, Psychology Press, 1890 [https://books.google.com/books?id=WcIkEz3a4nIC&pg=PA295 p. 295] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160425013939/https://books.google.com/books?id=WcIkEz3a4nIC&pg=PA295 |date=April 25, 2016}}, {{ISBN|0415323770}}, 9780415323772</ref> A manifesto can accept a previously published opinion or [[Consensus decision-making|public consensus]], but many prominent manifestos—such as ''[[The Communist Manifesto]]'' (1848) and those of various [[Art manifesto|artistic movements]]—reject accepted knowledge in favor of a new idea.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Fahs |first=Breanne |title=Burn it Down!: Feminist Manifestos for the Revolution |publisher=Verso |year=2020 |isbn=9781788735407 |pages=3–7 |language=en}}</ref> Manifestos relating to [[religious belief]] are generally referred to as ''[[creed]]s'' or ''confessions of faith''.

==Etymology==
The Italian word {{lang|it|manifesto}}, itself derived from the [[Latin]] {{lang|la|manifestus}}, meaning "clear" or "conspicuous". Its first recorded use in English is from 1620, in [[Nathaniel Brent]]'s translation of the Italian from [[Paolo Sarpi]]'s ''History of the [[Council of Trent]]'': "To this citation he made answer by a Manifesto" (p.&nbsp;102). Similarly, "They were so farre surprised with his Manifesto, that they would never suffer it to be published" (p.&nbsp;103).<ref>''[[Oxford English Dictionary]],'' s.v. “manifesto (n.),” July 2023, https://doi.org/10.1093/OED/6450578191. ''From N. Brent, translation of P. Sarpi,'' Historie of Councel of Trent ''103.''</ref>

==Notable examples==
* ''[[United States Declaration of Independence|The Declaration of Independence of the United States]]'' (1776) by the [[Committee of Five]]
* ''[[The Communist Manifesto]]'' (1848) by [[Karl Marx]] and [[Friedrich Engels]]
* ''[[Mein Kampf]]'' (1925) by [[Adolf Hitler]]
* ''[[Industrial Society and Its Future]]'' (1995) by [[Theodore John Kaczynski]]
* ''[[Agile software development|The Agile Manifesto]]'' (2001) by [[Martin Fowler (software engineer)|Martin Fowler]] and [[Jim Highsmith]]
* ''[[The Revolution: A Manifesto]]'' (2008) by [[Ron Paul]]

==References==
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==External links==
* {{Cite book|title=100 Artists' Manifestos|date=2011|publisher=Penguin|others=Danchev, Alex.|isbn=9780141191799|location=London|oclc=660519141}}

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