The Second Bill of Rights: FDR's Unfinished Revolution and Why We Need It More Than Ever

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The Second Bill of Rights: FDR's Unfinished Revolution and Why We Need It More Than Ever:

"In his recent book, The Shield and the Cloak, Gary Hart notes that 'When every child in America is secure, then America will be secure.' He frames social and economic security as not only equal to national military security, but as the foundation of national security. Hart is right. But he is not the first to have suggested this concept.

The path to that security was laid out in 1944 by Franklin Delano Roosevelt when, in his January 11th State of the Union address to the nation, he laid out his 'Second Bill of Rights':
It is our duty now to begin to lay the plans and determine the strategy for the winning of a lasting peace and the establishment of an American standard of living higher than ever before known. We cannot be content, no matter how high that general standard of living may be, if some fraction of our people.whether it be one-third or one-fifth or one-tenth.is ill-fed, ill-clothed, ill-housed, and insecure.

This Republic had its beginning, and grew to its present strength, under the protection of certain inalienable political rights.among them the right of free speech, free press, free worship, trial by jury, freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures. They were our rights to life and liberty. " (Read On ^)