FDR and New Deal Overturned Rulings

Several key parts of FDR's new deal were found Unconstitutional including:

• Agricultural Adjustment Act
• did not levy a tax but tried to control production, exceeding government responsibilities
• Railroad Pension Act
• passage of ex post facto laws, and creating arbitrary rules and obligations in a manner prohibited by the Fifth Amendment.
• Bankruptcy Act
•  federal government exercised eminent domain "in the public interest" by seizing farm property owned by the banks and turning it over to the farmers, in violation of the Fifth Amendment Takings Clause
• Bituminous Coal Conservation Act
• attempted to regulate coal prices and wages by empowering local boards to set minimum prices for coal and to provide collective bargaining services for employees, whose wages were abysmally low

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