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What are the facts that have been missed in Roosevelt's call for a "second Bill of Rights"?

What are the facts that have been missed in Roosevelt's call for a "second Bill of Rights"?

The facts that have been missed in Roosevelt’s call for a “second Bill of Rights” are":

1. First, it marked a characteristically provincial America’s Late and ginger entry into an already foreordained North Atlantic consensus.

2. Second, his highest promise was not a floor of protection for the masses but the end of “special privileges for the few” –  a ceiling on inequality.

3. Lastly, Roosevelt certainly hoped it would span the globe but it was organized nationally, not internationally.

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