What is "common cause"

n. 1 (&lit common cause English) 2 Shared purpose. 3 (context rhetoric English) anacoenosis.

Common Cause is a liberal political advocacy group based in Washington, D.C. It was founded in 1970 by John W. Gardner, the former Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare in the administration of President Lyndon Johnson.

To make common cause is an idiom meaning "to form an alliance, to cooperate towards a common goal".

As a proper noun, Common Cause may refer to:

• Common Cause, the U.S. lobbying group
• Common Cause, the journal of the Australian Coal and Shale Employees' Federation and edited by Sam Rosa
• Common Cause Magazine, an award-winning political and investigative journal founded by Florence Graves
• Common Cause Partnership, an Anglican alliance in North America
• Common Cause Variation, a concept in statistics
• Common Cause Foundation, a U.K. organization founded by :C. A. Smith in 1951
• Common Cause - No Aircraft Noise, a minor Australian political party that operated from 1995 until 1999
• Common cause failure, see Common mode failure