Editing Social Democratic Party (Laeral) (section)

==Platform==
The SDP was a [[Gramontism|Gramontist]], social-democratic party which espoused the ''Five Pillars'' as coined by [[Réne Gramont]] and [[Jean-Philippe Salaun|J.P. Salaun]]: republicanism, reformism, socialism, secularism, and anti-imperialism. Under SDP leadership, women were empowered in many areas of public life, free public education and healthcare were established, social reforms such as the ban of the topknot and the  affirmative action policies were enacted, and the power of Arrivée-supremacist militias and the Catholic Church were curbed. The ideology of the SDP underwent evolution throughout the [[Republican Era]], but core pamphlets and texts, such as Gramont's ''Five Pillars for National Progress'', Hong Kuo-shu's ''Scientific Programme for Virtue and National Self-Strengthening'', and Sun Jia-wei's ''Aphorisms of the Rose Revolution'' all retained their place in the development of SDP doctrine.