HIST 1220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: National Labor Relations Act, Rural Electrification Act, National Youth Administration
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Pick up from previous class october 24, 2016. Exam 2 will be available one week from today. The u. s supreme court began to hand down decisions stating that the new deal was unconstitutional. For example, they stated at the aaa (agricultural adjustment act) was unconstitutional. The federal government did not have enough power to limit how much farmers could earn. However, a year earlier, the supreme court that the national recovery association (nra) was unconstitutional as well. The grounds for being unconstitutional were that the executive branch could not create such things, only the legislative branch (congress). The nra was by the wayside which made. Roosevelt take the new deal further to the left, causing the federal government to get more involved in the economy. So thus, another round of legislative acts, collectively known as the (cid:862) e(cid:272)o(cid:374)d ne(cid:449) deal(cid:863). Some of the highlights from this second installment included: