The second bill of rights
Subtitle: FDR's unfinished revolution and why we need it more than ever
By: Cass R. Sunstein.
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
Subjects: Human rights -- United States -- History; Labor policy -- United States; United States -- Social policy; United States -- Economic policy
Description: Using FDR's 1944 State of the Union Address as a starting point, the author delves deeply into the revolutionary mind that penned this remarkable declaration of economic rights and illuminates the demise of this ambitious program for reform in the wake of the president's death.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-280) and index.
Table of contents: title: The speech of the century; title: The myth of laissez-faire; title: Rights from wrongs : Roosevelt's constitutional order; title: The birth of the second bill; title: A puzzle and an overview; title: The oldest constitution on earth; title: American culture and American exceptionalism; title: America's pragmatic Constitution; title: How the Supreme Court (almost) quietly adopted the second bill; title: Citizenship, opportunity, security; title: Objections : against the second bill?; title: The question of enforcement; title: Epilogue: Roosevelt's incomplete triumph.