Talk:Second Bill of Rights

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One of the difficult decisions relating to this entry is what to call it.

Cass Sunstein's 2004 book on these rights has as title The Second Bill of Rights.

Sunstein's subtitle is FDR's Unfinished Revolution, and, Why we Need It More Than Ever.

Commonly, the rights are called plain Economic Rights.

Commonly they are also thought to be our missing Civil Rights or unrealized Human Rights.

Also, these rights are presented as the foundation for an Economic Democracy or Welfare State.

The rights are relevant to political economy -- but not to conventional economics apart from politics.

Roosevelt's main concern was winning a war and preventing the next war. He saw these rights as strategic.

Few poeple today see them that way. Yet they may be strategic -- and concern for strategic rights today, in the middle of a war to democratize as much of the world as possible (to avoid nculear war), is a vital concern of all readers and writers of wikipedia.

If President Roosevelt was right, and only by establishing his economic rights in fact (as well as law) can wikipedia's people hope to survive, then it would be sad to complete a great encyclopedia with pages missing that might have saved their lives.

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deletion debate: Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/Franklin Roosevelt's Second Bill of Rights 12:03, 9 May 2005 (UTC)