If you watched Capitalism: A Love Story, Michael Moore presented a little known document that 32nd President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had written up called the Second Bill of Rights. It was more or less something which would have expanded upon what the Constitution protected against not only insuring Civil Liberty, but also Economic Liberty [in theory anyway]
My question here is would this entire bill of rights be rejected as "communistic" or "socialist" by the Republican/Dixiecrat alliance, would only parts of it be ratified and if so which ones, or unlikely would the entire bill have passed?
Personally, I think these amendments would be the only ones to pass and I shall explain why I think so:
* Right to Adequate Protection - that's the Social Security system; he's arguing that Americans have accepted Social Security as a permanent part of American government.
* Right to Farm - that's the AAA farm subsidy program; again, he's arguing that this is something that everyone has accepted as permanent.
* Right of Free Trade - as people have pointed out, this is just saying we should actually enforce anti-trust policies.
* Right to a Living Wage - well, this would have been just the expansion and increase of the minimum wage established in 1938.
Thoughts anyone?
