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The Great Depression and the New Deal

Barry Cushman, University of Virginia School of Law

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Forthcoming, The Cambridge History of Law in America (Tomlin & Grossberg, eds.)

Abstract

This essay was written for the forthcoming Cambridge History of Law in America. Part I describes the economic conditions of the Great Depression and details the executive and legislative responses produced under the Hoover and Roosevelt Administrations. Part II examines contemporary controversies over the growth of federal executive authority and the elaboration of the administrative state. Part III documents the relaxation of constraints on economic regulation imposed by the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments and the Contract Clause. Part IV analyzes various manifestations of the revolution in constitutional federalism. Part V explores the growth of protections for civil rights, civil liberties, and democratic processes.

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Constitutional Law, Legal History, Public Law and Legal Theory

Recommended Citation

Barry Cushman, "The Great Depression and the New Deal" (June 2005). University of Virginia Legal Working Paper Series. University of Virginia Public Law and Legal Theory Working Paper Series. Working Paper 23.
http://law.bepress.com/uvalwps/uva_publiclaw/art23

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