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Cass R. Sunstein

The Second Bill of Rights

FDR's Constitutional Vision and Why We Need It Today, with a new preface by the author

Cass R. Sunstein

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MIT Press
23 September 2025
Economics
How our economic rights are fundamental to the security and stability of our democracy.

How our economic rights are fundamental to the security and stability of our democracy.

From a prolific, insider author and leading legal scholar who has worked for former Presidents Obama and Biden.

In 1944, Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave a State of the Union Address that should be counted as the greatest political speech of the twentieth century. In it, Roosevelt grappled with the definition of security in a democracy, concluding that ""unless there is security here at home, there cannot be lasting peace in the world."" To help ensure that security, he proposed a ""Second Bill of Rights""-economic rights that he saw as necessary to political freedom, including a right to education, a right to adequate health care, a right to a home, and a right to protection against destitution. Many of the great legislative achievements of the past eighty years stem from Roosevelt's vision.

In The Second Bill of Rights, Cass Sunstein uses this speech as a launching point to show how these rights are vital to the continuing security of our nation. This is an ambitious, sweeping book that argues for a new vision of FDR, of constitutional history, and of our current political scene that has never been more urgent or more relevant.
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Imprint:   MIT Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 229mm,  Width: 152mm, 
Weight:   369g
ISBN:   9780262553841
ISBN 10:   0262553848
Pages:   304
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
The Second Bill of Rights Introduction Part 1: Roosevelt The Speech of the Century The Myth of Laissez-Faire Rights from Wrongs: Roosevelt's Consistutional Order The Birth of the Second Bill Part 2: America A Puzzle and an Overview The Oldest Consistution on Earth American Culture and American Exceptionalism America's Pragmatic Constitution How the Supreme Court Quietly (Almost) Adopted the Second Bill Part 3: Constitutions and Commitments Citizenship, opportunity, security Objections: Against the Second Bill The Question of Enforcement Epilogue: Roosevelt's Incomplete Triumph

Cass R. Sunstein is Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard University, where he is the cofounder and codirector of the Initiative on Artificial Intelligence and the Law. Former Administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, he is the author of The Cost-Benefit Revolution, How Change Happens, Too Much Information, Sludge, Climate Justice (all published by the MIT Press), Nudge (with Richard H. Thaler), and other books.

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