Montes Day 4: Impact of the New Deal

THE SUPREME COURT AND NEW DEAL

•The greatest threat to the New Deal came from the Supreme
Court, the Third Branch of the United States.
•Supreme Court ruled some New Deal legislation (National
Industrial Recovery Act & Agricultural Adjustment Act)
unconstitutionaland FDR feared the Court might declare other
programs unconstitutional

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FDR’s Court-Packing Scheme

•FDR proposed a plan that would allow him to appoint new justices to the court.
(Court-Packing Scheme)

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Add a new justice for each justice over the age of 70

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This would have added 6 new justices to the Supreme Court

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Court-packing: adding justices to the court in order to shift the balance to a
liberal or conservative side

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Disruption to the separation of powers

NEW DEAL IMPACT ON GOVERNMENT

IMPACT

•Government now had a responsibility to make sure the national
economy ran smoothly and efficiently.

•The New Deal greatly expanded the government’s role in areas
of social and economic life it had not been involved with.

•New Deal established government agencies, regulations, and
procedures that we still have today.
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KEY INDIVIDUALS IN THIS CHAPTER

Herbert Hoover: President when Great Depression
began. Believed in "rugged individualism" and failed to take
enough measures against the Great Depression.
Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR):Elected President in 1932;
introduced a New Deal program to get the economy moving again.
Eleanor Roosevelt: A political activist, who served as the eyes
and ears to her husband, President Roosevelt.

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