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  2. Second Bill of Rights - Wikipedia

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    The Second Bill of Rights or Bill of Economic Rights was proposed by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt during his State of the Union Address on Tuesday, January 11, 1944. [1] In his address, Roosevelt suggested that the nation had come to recognise and should now implement a "Second bill of rights".

  3. Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937 - Wikipedia

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    The Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937, [1] frequently called the "court-packing plan", [2] was a legislative initiative proposed by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt to add more justices to the U.S. Supreme Court in order to obtain favorable rulings regarding New Deal legislation that the Court had ruled unconstitutional. [3]

  4. Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt, first and second terms

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    Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt March 4, 1933 – April 12, 1945 ... Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937 ... a third party movement to challenge Roosevelt ...

  5. Franklin D. Roosevelt and civil rights - Wikipedia

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    Franklin D. Roosevelt's relationship with Civil Rights was a complicated one. While he was popular among African Americans, Catholics and Jews, he has in retrospect received heavy criticism for the ethnic cleansing of Mexican Americans in the 1930s known as the Mexican Repatriation and his internment of Japanese Americans during the Second World War.

  6. Second New Deal - Wikipedia

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    The Second New Deal is a term used by historians [1] to characterize the second stage, 1935–36, of the New Deal programs of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.The most famous laws included the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act, the Banking Act, the Wagner National Labor Relations Act, the Public Utility Holding Company Act, the Social Security Act, and the Wealth Tax Act.

  7. Fair Deal - Wikipedia

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    New Deal – Franklin Roosevelt's signature program of economic reforms during the Great Depression The New Freedom – President Wilson 's proposed tariff, business, and banking reforms New Nationalism – Proposed by ex-President Theodore Roosevelt during his 1912 run for office as a Progressive Party candidate; included provision for a ...

  8. What's Inside the Financial Reform Bill - AOL

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    Senate and House negotiators reached agreement early Friday morning on the most sweeping overhaul of financial regulation since the Great Depression. Consumers came out the big winners, with the ...

  9. History of health care reform in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Isidore Falk and Edgar Sydenstricter to help draft provisions to Roosevelt's pending Social Security legislation to include publicly funded health care programs. These reforms were attacked by the American Medical Association as well as state and local affiliates of the AMA as "compulsory health insurance ...