Second Bill of Rights FDR's Unfinished Revolution--And Why We Need It More Than Ever

Name: Second Bill of Rights FDR's Unfinished Revolution--And Why We Need It More Than Ever
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ISBN: 9780465083336

ISBN-10: 0465083331

ISBN-13: 9780465083336

Edition: 2006

Authors: Cass Sunstein

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In 1944, Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave a State of the Union Address that was arguably the greatest political speech of the twentieth century. The speech began what Cass R. Sunstein calls the Second American Revolution by giving form and specificity, for the first time, to the concept of human economic rights. Many of the great legislative achievements of the past sixty years stem from Roosevelt's proposal for a Second Bill of Rights. Yet these rights have never been written into the Constitution, and they remain the subject of passionate debate. In recent years they have even lost ground. Using FDR's speech as a launching point, Sunstein examines that "legal realist" school of thought,…

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List price: $16.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 7/4/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 8.94" wide x 5.94" long x 0.63" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English