All Posts Tagged With: "Agricultural Adjustment Act"
A Contemptible Congress and a Derelict Court
What can Congress do that the Supreme Court would find unconstitutional? Or, what can Congress do that a president would veto as unconstitutional? It is not much exaggeration to say that Congress can do whatever it can muster a majority vote for, whether it is constitutional or not. The members only have to worry about [...]
24Feb2010 | Walter E. Williams | 5 comments | ContinuedThe Origin of American Farm Subsidies
In the United States how did we go from having no role for the federal government in farming to having government intertwined in all aspects of farming from planting to harvesting to selling crops? The Constitution is clear on the subject. Article 1, Section 8, provides no role for the federal government in regulating American [...]
1Apr2006 | Burton W. Folsom Jr. | 0 comments | ContinuedWhen the Supreme Court Stopped Economic Fascism in America
Seventy years ago, on May 27, 1935, the U.S. Supreme Court said no to economic fascism in America.The trend toward bigger and ever-moreintrusive government, unfortunately, was not stopped, but the case nonetheless was a significant event that at that time prevented the institutionalizing of a Mussolini-type corporativist system in America. (Correction: Contrary to a statement in this column, young men in the Civilian Conservation Corps were not compelled to join.)
1Oct2005 | Richard M. Ebeling | 4 comments | ContinuedAmerican Dreamer: A Life of Henry A. Wallace by John C. Culver and John Hyde
W. W. Norton & Company · 2000 · 608 pages · $35.00 Reviewed by Burton Folsom, Jr. Possibly the most prominent statist politician in America in the first half of the twentieth century was Henry A. Wallace—vice-president, secretary of agriculture, and candidate for president in 1948. In American Dreamer, former U.S. Senator John C. Culver [...]
1Sep2001 | Burton W. Folsom Jr. | 0 comments | ContinuedUnrestrained Appetites, Unlimited Government
The federal government was supposed to be limited to a few defined powers. The Tenth Amendment to the Constitution—“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people”—confirms it. The federal government, of course, does not at [...]
1May1998 | Jeffrey R. Snyder | 6 comments | Continued-
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