- The Act of Abjuration (1581)
- The United States Declaration of Independence (1776)
- The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen (1789) during the French Revolution
- The Cartagena Manifesto (1812), by Simón Bolívar
- The Tamworth Manifesto issued in 1834 by Sir Robert Peel
- The Declaration of Sentiments (1848)
- The Communist Manifesto (1848), by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
- The Anarchist Manifesto (1850), by Anselme Bellegarrigue.
- 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 Second Manifesto dealing with plural marriage, issued by Joseph F. Smith as president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- The October Manifesto (1905) issued by Nicholas II, in an effort to cease the 1905 Russian Revolution
- The Manifesto of the Sixteen (1916)
- The Urmia Manifesto of the United Free Assyria, (1917) by Dr. Freydun Atturaya
- The Liminar Manifesto in the Argentine University Revolution (1918)
- The Amasya Circular (1919)
- 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
- I'll Take my Stand (1930), the manifesto of the Southern Agrarians
- 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 Oxford Manifesto (1947) describing the basic principles of Liberal International
- The Objectives Resolution of Pakistan (1949), by Liaquat Ali Khan
- The Russell-Einstein Manifesto (1955), against nuclear weapons and war
- The Southern Manifesto (1956), opposing the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education
- Report on the Construction of Situations (1957), by Guy Debord
- The Capitalist Manifesto (1958), proposing the Democratization of Capital, including employee and citizen's ownership by Louis Kelso and Mortimer Adler (see Binary Economics')
- The Manifesto of the 121 against the Algerian War
- For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto (1973), by Murray Rothbard
- New Libertarian Manifesto (1980), by Samuel Edward Konkin III
- A Christian Manifesto (1982), by Francis Schaeffer
- A Cyborg Manifesto (1985), by Donna Haraway
- Manifesto against conscription and the military system (1993) by Christian Bartolf (Gandhi Information Center)
- The Contract with America (1994), by the Republican candidates for the House of Representatives
- Industrial Society and Its Future a.k.a. The Unabomber's Manifesto (1995) by Unabomber, Theodore Kaczynski
- The Hedonistic Imperative, by David Pearce
- The Libre Manifesto, by the Libre Society
- Life on Earth (2002) by Luke Helder
- An Anti-Capitalism Manifesto (2003), by Alex Callinicos
- No One Is Illegal Manifesto (2003)
- The Free Culture Manifesto (2004), by FreeCulture.org
- Manifesto on Freedom and Democracy for Vietnam (2006) by Bloc 8406
- The Euston Manifesto (2006) by Euston Manifesto Group