When the founding documents of the US were created, there was not the disparity in economic status that there is now.There was such economic inequality at the time of the Revolutionary War, that the nation's founding documents all include specific references to guaranteeing individual economic rights and well-being.Although the Constitution includes the phrase "promote the General Welfare" it does not define or establish exactly what that means.Roosevelt's language of providing "useful and remunerative" jobs used in his proposal for a "second bill of rights" is an example of the "Puritan Ethic" continuing to shape US values and policies.

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