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Author Sunstein, Cass R.

Title The second bill of rights : FDR's unfinished revolution and why we need it more than ever / Cass R. Sunstein.

Imprint New York : Basic Books, c2004.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  342.085 Su74s 2004    ---  Available
 Axe Special Collections Rosen  342.085 Su74s 2004 c.2  ---  Lib Use Only
Description viii, 294 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-280) and index.
Contents The speech of the century -- The myth of laissez-faire -- Rights from wrongs : Roosevelt's constitutional order -- The birth of the second bill -- A puzzle and an overview -- The oldest constitution on earth -- American culture and American exceptionalism -- America's pragmatic Constitution -- How the Supreme Court (almost) quietly adopted the second bill -- Citizenship, opportunity, security -- Objections : against the second bill? -- The question of enforcement -- Epilogue: Roosevelt's incomplete triumph.
Subject Human rights -- United States -- History.
United States -- Social policy.
United States -- Economic policy.
Labor policy -- United States.
ISBN 0465083323 (alk. paper)

 
    
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