1. Universal, equal, direct, and secret suffrage, which, beginning with the twentieth year, obliges all citizens to vote in all State, county, and town elections. Election-day must be a Sunday or a holiday.
2. Direct legislation by the people; decision as to war and peace by the people.
3. General capability of bearing arms; popular defense in place of standing armies.
4. Abolition of all exceptional laws, especially those relating to the press, public meetings, and associations—in short, of all laws which hinder the free expression of ideas and thought.
5. Gratuitous administration of justice by the people.
6. General and equal, popular and gratuitous education by the Government in all classes and institutes of learning; general duty to attend school; religion to be declared a private affair.
The German Social Workingmen's party insists on realizing in the present state of society:
1. The largest possible extension of political rights and freedom in conformity to the above six demands.
2. A single progressive income-tax for State, counties, and towns, instead of those which are imposed at present, and in place of indirect taxes, which unequally burden the people.
3. Unlimited right of combination.