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The New Deal Outline
A. Chapter 14 - The New Deal 1. President Hoover's <http://www.hoover.nara.gov/> failure to combat the Depression, discredited laissez-faire ideas and states rights 2. four thrusts to the New Deal <http://site123225.primehost.com/NewDeal1931to1941.html> a. restore the banking system b. modify free markets c. control corporate power d. National Labor Relations Act (1935) encouraged the growth of unions 3. New Deal <http://www.americanpresidents.com/froosevelt.html> based on liberalism a. nationalistic constitutionalism: the Depression <http://www.scruz.net/~kangaroo/THE_GREAT_DEPRESSION.htm> was a crisis like war b. general welfare state, and legal realism c. interstate commerce power, and power to tax and spend for the general welfare 4. Supreme Court 1933-36, declares most the New Deal unconstitutional a. Schecter Poultry Corp v. U.S. (1935) violates the separation of powers 5. U.S. v. Butler (1936) violates states rights under the Tenth Amendment 6. The election of 1936 <http://viva.lib.virginia.edu/gic/elections/1936pv.html> and the "switch in time that saved nine" a. Roosevelt's plan to "pack" the Court led to a change of views on the Court b. West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish (1937) Court repudiates "liberty of contract" c. National Labor Relations Board v. Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp. (1937) Court expands the meaning of the interstate commerce power of Congress d. U.S. v. Darby (1941) court repudiates "dual federalism" and that the Tenth Amendment as a limitation on national power. B. 
Chapter 15 - Liberal Constitutionalism 1. providing for a general welfare state a. G.I Bill of Rights, subsidizes housing and education b. social security as a wealth transfer program between generations c. President Lyndon Johnson's <http://www.hpol.org/lbj/> "War on Poverty" 2. Roosevelt <http://tlc.ai.org/froosidx.htm> Court and the protection of civil liberties a. U.S. v. Carolene Products Co. (1938) Court would no longer decide on the constitutionality of economic policy, but it would focus on civil rights-- "the preferred freedoms". b. Gitlow v. New York(1925) Court applied the First Amendment to the states through the liberty and due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment c. Palko v. Connecticut (1937) Fourteenth amendment incorporated most of the Bill of Rights and applied them to the states as "fundamental liberties". d. West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette (1943) free exercise of religion includes the right not to say what you do not believe e. Ex parte Endo (1944) <http://sun.kent.wednet.edu/staff/rnakatsu/Nikkei/Court_Cases.html> Court orders release of Japanese Americans 3. The Cold War <http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/coldwar.htm> a. President Truman's <http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/glimpse/presidents/html/ht33.html> loyalty programs for federal employees b. Senator Joseph McCarthy <http://webcorp.com/mccarthy/> and the Un-American Activities Committee 4. The Warren Court a. Albertson v. Subversive Activities Control Board (1965) Court made it impossible to prosecute people belonging to "subversive" organizations b. New York Times v. Sullivan (1964) no public official could sue the news media for libel unless he could show "actual malice" c. Engle v. Vitale (1962) Abington v. Schempp (1963) Court held that state composed prayers or mandatory Bible reading violated the First Amendment d. Griswold v. Connecticut (1965) and Roe v. Wade (1973) Constitution protected privacy and the right of a mother to have an abortion.