But whatever happens at the presidential level, there are many progressive provisions in the Constitution that will have an immediate and long-term impact on the day-to-day lives of ordinary people.
* NOTE: Being specifically against a public-option-free individual insurance mandate is not the same thing as being against other (more progressive) provisions on the health care bill.
Louis responded with the Charter of 1814, which included many progressive provisions: freedom of religion, a legislature composed of the Chamber of Deputies and the Chamber of Peers, a press that would enjoy a degree of freedom, and a provision that the Biens nationaux would remain in the hands of their current owners.
While at the Treasury Department, I worked on President George W. Bush's 2007 proposal to expand coverage through a change to the tax treatment of health insurance more progressive than the provision that ended up in the Affordable Care Act.
But don't expect much support for any of Oxfam's suggested remedies for inequality: that corporations should stop using offshore boltholes to avoid tax; that business leaders should support progressive taxation, universal provision of health and education, and a living wage in all the companies they control.
In an unexpected reversal of its previous position, the NCC decided to retain the Mung'omba Draft Constitution's progressive ESC rights provisions by recognizing the rights to education, health, social protection, food, water, sanitation, and housing (subject to a referendum).
Progressive citizens included a provision for recall of elected officials in their constitution, if the voters so wanted.
A plan for government-run insurance has been the focal point of the soon-to-be-concluded health care debate; the catalyst of white-hot partisan warfare; and the provision that progressive and conservatives alike have deemed the arbiter of whether legislation is a success.
However, the right to health's contribution is undercut by the principle of progressive realization, which links provision of health services to available resources, permitting states to deny even basic levels of health coverage domestically and allowing international assistance for health to remain entirely discretionary.
But it's a progressive act containing new provisions banning the barring of breast-feeding in public; protecting against "dual discrimination" by addressing the experience of discrimination connected to more than one characteristic (for example, the experience of being a black woman); and permitting positive action in wide circumstances.
