Part I: Roosevelt -- The speech of the century -- The myth of laissez-faire -- Rights from wrongs : Roosevelt's constitutional order -- The birth of the second bill -- Part II: America -- A puzzle and an overview -- The oldest constitution on earth -- American culture and American exceptionalism -- America's pragmatic Constitution -- How the Supreme Court (almost) quietly adopted the second bill -- Part III: Constitutions and commitments -- Citizenship, opportunity, security -- Objections : against the second bill? -- The question of enforcement -- Epilogue: Roosevelt's incomplete triumph.
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