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Was established only on the back of social security's constitutionality, which ultimately became francis perkins' biggest challenge in writing that law. she and her team of lawyers and legislative experts couldn't come up with a constitutional justification for a national government administered pension program. in that same speech you heard, which was given when she was 82 years old, she told the story, the amazing story, of how she personal secured the constitutionality of social security. this for me is the stuff of absolutely delicious washington oral history. it takes place at a social ri...