The Second Bill of Rights was a proposal made by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt during his State of the Union Address on January 11, 1944 to suggest that the nation had come to recognize, and should now implement, a second bill of rights. Roosevelt did not argue for any change to the United States Constitution; he argued that the second bill of rights was to be implemented politically, not by federal judges. Roosevelt’s stated justification was that the “political rights” guaranteed by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights had “proved inadequate to assure us equality in the pursuit of happiness.” Roosevelt’s remedy was to create an “economic bill of rights” which would guarantee…
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Excellent post. I had heard of this but forgot about it. The reason it was shot down is that globalism denies nationalism and an economic bill of rights in the USA would have made it much stronger nationally. This would have interfered with the plans they have for us. So sad, as an economic bill of rights combined with everything else that america had going for it would have created an empire much more powerful and longer lasting than Rome was. Some would argue that liberalism, big government and socialism are our modern bill of economic rights but I find this approach to actually limit the economic aspirations of most citizen artifically so that the elites can enjoy the ‘stratosphere’ for themselves.