ABSTRACT
In order that the profundity of the American influence on the development of human rights in the UN should be understood, I will now return to the story of rights in the United States before continuing the UN story. Because of the ongoing consequences of the American social-structural particularities outlined above (see p. 51) and therefore the continuing absence of a social-democratic party capable of forming a government, the New Deal represented the high water mark for the revival of reciprocity in the form of social rights in the United States, save for the neap tide briefly represented by the ‘War on Poverty’ in the 1960s.
