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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was unopposed for the Democratic presidential nomination. The platform, adopted after the Democratic National Convention opened in Philadelphia on 22 June, echoed the Declaration of Independence, stating:
We hold this truth to be self-evident — that government in a modern civilization has certain inescapable obligations to its citizens, among which are:
(1) Protection of the family and the home;
(2) Establishment of a democracy of opportunity for all the people;
(3) Aid to those overtaken by disaster.
The president and platform also roundly criticized big business and finance capital.
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