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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Sunstein, Cass R. Second bill of rights. New York : Basic Books, c2004 (OCoLC)607394633 Online version: Sunstein, Cass R. Second bill of rights. New York : Basic Books, c2004 (OCoLC)607839555 |
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| Named Person: | Franklin D Roosevelt |
| Material Type: | Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Cass R Sunstein |
| ISBN: | 0465083323 9780465083329 |
| OCLC Number: | 53485245 |
| Description: | viii, 294 p. ; 24 cm. |
| 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. |
| Responsibility: | Cass R. Sunstein. |
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Abstract:
An ambitious, sweeping argument for a new vision of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, constitutional history, and our current political scene, this book is an integral part of the American tradition and the starting point for contemporary political reform.
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