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This 3 page paper discusses some of the concerns that Roosevelt was going too far with the New Deal. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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"pack" the Supreme Court, and his bald statement that if Congress didnt give him the powers he felt he needed to deal with a crisis in American society, he would
simply take them. This paper considers FDRs New Deal and some of the concerns surrounding it. Discussion The "New Deal" is a series of legislative measures taken to help the
country out of the Great Depression; probably the most successful piece of legislation enacted at this time is Social Security. Other programs to come out of the 1930s include the
Tennessee Valley Authority, the Federal Emergency Relief Act, which provides federal funds to disaster areas, and the Securities Exchange Act, which established the Securities and Exchange Commission (Chronology). All of
the measures were meant to help the American people, but some of them went to far, raising concerns that FDR was setting himself up as some sort of dictator. And
some of the measures were unfair or so questionable that they were eventually found unconstitutional. One of these was the National Recovery Administration (NRA), an agency that was involved in
"organizing thousands of businesses under fair trade codes drawn up by trade associations and industries" (National recovery administration). While these codes were being devised, Congress passed a great many laws
that affected working Americans; they are still in place (National recovery administration). These laws included a "40 hour week for clerical workers, a 36 hour week for industrial workers, [and]
a minimum wage of 40 cents an hour" (National recovery administration). They also "abolished child labour [sic] and ... guaranteed the right that trade unions could organize and exercise the
right of collective bargaining" (National recovery administration). But the problem was that although the NRA program was voluntary, only those businesses that agreed to abide by the guidelines could display
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