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FDR’s Second Bill of Rights

FDR's Second Bill of Rights

One of the more amazing revelations in Michael Moore's new film, Capitalism: A Love Story, is his discovery of long-buried archival footage of Franklin D. Roosevelt detailing his planned but never enacted "Second Bill of Rights," calling for guaranteed a Second Bill of Rights that recognizes "economic truths become accepted as self-evident" — the right to a job, a home, adequate health care, and an education. There has been — and will no doubt continue to be! — debate about what this Second Bill of Rights would have led to and whether it was a brilliant or terrible idea, or still is. Nevertheless, Moore discovered a pretty important bit of history lurking in a film archive, and FDR's opinion still carries weight, so this will be discussed. To that end, we've collected the audio and text here for your reference. (more...)



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