Party Platform of the Democratic Party
The Democratic Party has a long history of claiming to represent and protect the interests of working Americans and guaranteeing personal liberties for all. One of the places they articulate the beliefs is in the Party's National Platform, adopted every four years by the Delegates at the National Convention.
The National Platform is an official statement of the Party's position on a wide variety of issues. Each issue category included in the Platform is a "plank." A new Platform is adopted every four years by the Democratic National Convention. For example, the 2000 National Platform emphasized three key Democratic Party ideals:
(1)Prosperity — sustaining and strengthening the economic growth that brought opportunities to many Americans in the 1990s;
(2)Progress — paying attention to the aspects of the lives that cannot be measured in economic terms but which have a deep impact on the everyday existence;
(3) Peace — more than just the absence of war it means protecting America's security wherever it is allegedly endangered and promoting so-called democratic values around the world.
Republicans' Principles and Beliefs
Republicans believe:
• the strength of the nation lies with the individual and that each person's dignity, freedom, ability and responsibility must be honoured.
• equal rights, equal justice and equal opportunity for all, regardless of race, creed, sex, age or disability must be strictly observed.
• free enterprise and increasing individual initiative have brought the nation
opportunity, economic growth and prosperity.
• that the proper role of government is to provide for the people only those critical functions that cannot be performed by individuals or private organizations, and that the best government is that which governs least.
• that the most effective, responsible and responsive government is government closest to the people.
• that Americans must retain the principles that have made the nation strong while developing new and innovative ideas to meet the challenges of changing times.
• that Americans value and should preserve the national strength and pride while working to extend peace, freedom and human rights throughout the world.
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