• The eight-hour workday and 40-hour workweek
• Worker’s compensation for on-the-job accidents
• Unemployment insurance
• Prohibitions against child labor and workplace exploitations
• The legal right of people to organize within labor unions and engage in collective bargaining for fair wages and benefits
• The constitutional right to vote, full legal equality, and the elimination of formal discrimination for women and minorities
• The graduated income and inheritance tax
• Protections against contaminated food and medicines
• Hundreds of millions of acres of protected wilderness areas, waterways, and national parks
• Antimonopoly and anticompetitive regulations of corporations
• Direct elections of U.S. senators, direct primary elections of political candidates, and the initiative and referendum process in the states
• Civil service tests to replace political patronage
• National supervision of banks and the creation of a flexible national currency
• Regulation of the securities industry
• Federal insurance of bank deposits
• Bans on speculative banking practices
• Refinancing and foreclosure protections for home and farm owners
• National infrastructure including electrification, railways, airports, bridges and roads, and the Internet
• Social Security and Medicare to aid the elderly and Medicaid and CHIP to help low-income families and children
• Minimum wage laws and income support for the working poor
• Public education, college loans and grants for students, and the GI Bill
• Repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” thus ending discrimination of gays in the military.

He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

Thomas Paine

First Principles of Government, 1795