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Definition of Political platform
1. Noun. A document stating the aims and principles of a political party. "They won the election even though they offered no positive program"
Generic synonyms: Document, Papers, Written Document
Terms within: Plank
Lexicographical Neighbors of Political Platform
Literary usage of Political platform
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Courts and Lawyers of Pennsylvania: A History, 1623-1923 by Frank Marshall Eastman (1922)
"... or on the political platform. As a lawyer he had in his day no equal ; a
thorough scholar and student of the law, his cases for trial were prepared with ..."
2. Oriental America and Its Problems by Theodore Williams Noyes (1903)
"... XVI TRUE ANTI-IMPERIALISM Antagonistic to Both Great Political Parties—Curious
Phases of the Presidential Campaign—political platform Duplicity—Genuine ..."
3. The Methodist Review (1873)
"... or the existence of God, even if a German political party should lay an
anti-Sabbath, or anti-Bible, or an atheistic plank in its political platform. ..."
4. Socialism in Theory and Practice by Morris Hillquit (1909)
"The policy of every party must in the last analysis be determined by and subordinated
to its main aims and objects, its political platform, and as long as ..."
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