About

Mission

The Next Square Deal exists to educate people about—and earn informed support for—a people-centered political platform. Inspired by the Square Deal and Franklin D. Roosevelt's proposed Second Bill of Rights, it argues that freedom requires more than formal liberty: people also need economic security, protection from concentrated power, an equal democratic voice, and a livable shared future.

The framework is progressive in purpose, but it does not belong to a political party, candidate, or campaign. It gives people a clear program they can examine, challenge, improve, prioritize, and share.

Education comes first. Each guarantee distinguishes current law from proposals, compares possible policy mechanisms, presents evidence and limitations, and treats serious objections as part of the work. Support should be informed rather than manufactured.

Why the Square Deal and Second Bill of Rights

“A square deal” is plain language for fair treatment under common rules. Theodore Roosevelt’s program made corporate power, consumer protection, and conservation part of a national reform argument. The phrase is useful; the era is not an instruction manual.

Earlier reforms delivered achievements alongside racial exclusion, unequal citizenship, gender hierarchy, administrative discrimination, civil-liberties conflicts, and failures of democratic inclusion. Historical inspiration here means examining what traveled well, what caused harm, and what a modern framework must do differently.

Franklin Roosevelt's proposed economic rights extended the argument by connecting work, housing, health, education, and security to freedom. They were presidential proposals—not an enacted constitutional amendment. This project draws from that unfinished argument without treating its original form as final.

Why public guarantees

A guarantee names an outcome worth organizing institutions around without pretending one policy is the only path. It makes the public purpose visible while leaving room to compare federal and state law, local services, social insurance, regulation, markets, labor institutions, private organizations, and community action.

Together, the ten guarantees form a political platform. A guarantee states the public outcome; it does not require agreement on a single bill, program, level of government, or institution.

The word does not mean every item is judicially enforceable. Unless a page says otherwise, these are proposed public commitments, not federal constitutional rights.

Commitment to evidence and historical honesty

Source type, role, verification status, access date, and limitations travel with the material. Critical evidence belongs beside supportive evidence. Government data is not automatically causal proof; an advocacy report is not disguised as neutral; a presidential speech is not treated as enacted law.

Material revisions should be explained, dated, and preserved in a compact change record. Factual errors should be corrected plainly rather than silently replaced.

What support means here

Support means informed agreement with all or part of the framework—and a willingness to help it enter public conversation. Readers can choose their priorities, share a guarantee or personal Deal, follow revisions, suggest evidence, report errors, and take part in a future public-review process when one is established.

The site does not turn support into a petition signature, membership claim, donation solicitation, campaign list, or political-interest profile. Reading, subscribing, or sharing priorities does not imply support for any candidate, party, or organization.

Current project stage

This launch edition is a public working draft of a platform intended to become more credible through scrutiny. Its ten guarantees include national baselines, cited legal and policy context, implementation choices, serious objections, and open questions. They are not jurisdiction-specific legal advice or a substitute for independent expert review. “Working draft” is an editorial status—not permission to publish unsupported claims or a broken interface.

Contact

• General: hello@nextsquaredeal.org
• Press: press@nextsquaredeal.org
• Organizing and partnerships: organize@nextsquaredeal.org

Funding and affiliation

No legal entity, tax status, formal staff, board, donors, partners, funding, or institutional endorsements have been verified or claimed. Organizational information will be published only after it has been formally established.

The Next Square Deal is not a candidate campaign or party committee and does not endorse candidates or parties. Support for this framework must not be represented as support for any person or organization.