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1. We will guarantee to every child the right to be well born.

2. We will guarantee to every child the right to enough food, clothing and education to insure physical, and mental health and growth.

3. We will guarantee to each adult the full produce of his labor.

4. We will provide insurance against sickness, accidents, unemployment, and death.

5. We will give pensions against old age to every man and woman who has done his share of the work of the world.

6. We will take for social purposes all social values, whether in resources, in franchises, or in the product of any human activity.

7. And finally we will seek to guarantee equal opportunity to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness through a government that restricts its activities to those necessary to provide for securing the common weal.