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

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Authors: Cass Sunstein
ISBN-13: 9780465083336, ISBN-10: 0465083331
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Basic Books
Date Published: July 2006
Edition: Reprint

Author Biography: Cass Sunstein

Cass R. Sunstein is Karl N. Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor of Jurisprudence at the University of Chicago Law School and a contributing editor at The New Republic and the American Prospect. He has testified before Congress on numerous occasions and has contributed as well to such publications as the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Washington Post. His numerous books include Republic.com, Risk and Reason, Laws of Fear, and The Second Bill of Rights. He lives in Chicago, Illinois.

Book Synopsis

This is an ambitious, sweeping book that argues how rights are vital to the continuing security of our nation.

Simon Callow

The book is an absolute winner. —The Mail

1	The speech of the century	9
2	The myth of laissez-faire	17
3	Rights from wrongs : Roosevelt's constitutional order	35
4	The birth of the second bill	61
5	A puzzle and an overview	99
6	The oldest constitution on earth	109
7	American culture and American exceptionalism	127
8	America's pragmatic constitution	139
9	How the Supreme Court (almost) quietly adopted the second bill	149
10	Citizenship, opportunity, security	175
11	Objections : against the second bill?	193
12	The question of enforcement	209
	Epilogue : Roosevelt's incomplete triumph	231
App. I	Message to the Congress on the state of the union address, January 11, 1944	235
App. II	The universal declaration of human rights (excerpts)	245
App. III	International covenant on economic, social, and cultural rights (excerpts)	247
App. IV	Excerpts from various constitutions	253