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New Deal Dbq

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The New Deal was enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the height of the Great Depression. The New Deal expanded federal power by creating new agencies, regulating the economy, increasing the federal role in social welfare, exerting control over banking and finance, and investing in public works. This was justified due to the Great Depression and the Interstate Commerce Clause. Many critics argued that the New Deal was violating state rights and that the Supreme Court, at first, stuck down numerous New Deal programs and deemed them as unconstitutional. The court case Wickard v. Filburn in 1942, concluded with the expansion of the federal government's regulatory power under the Commerce Clause. The Supreme Court justified that the

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