綱領

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: 綱領 is a noun read こうりょう, meaning an organization's platform or formal statement of its aims, policies, and principles.
• Basic usage: Use 目的を綱領にまとめる for setting aims out as a platform and 組織の綱領を読む for reading an organization's principles.
  • 新しい団体は活動の目的を綱領にまとめました。 describes a new organization compiling its aims into a statement of principles; 会員になる前に組織の綱領を読んでください。 asks prospective members to read the organization's platform before joining.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• 綱領にまとめる
  • に marks a platform as the resulting form into which the aims are organized.
• 組織の綱領
  • の links the statement of principles to the organization that owns it.
• 会員になる前に
  • 前に places reading the platform before becoming a member.