The Sick Chicken Case (eBook)

The US Supreme Court and the New Deal

Williamjames Hull Hoffer (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
228 Seiten
University Press of Kansas (Verlag)
978-0-7006-3817-8 (ISBN)

Infos

The defining legal history of a landmark decision by the US Supreme Court that gutted a key piece of FDR's New Deal.On May 25, 1935, in the midst of the Great Depression, the US Supreme Court handed down a series of decisions that dealt mortal blows to New Deal legislation and presidential initiativesa day known to New Dealers as Black Monday. The most significant of these decisions was A.L.A. Schechter Poultry v. U.S., which members of the press promptly labeled the sick chicken case. In this decision, the Court declared the National Industrial Recovery Act unconstitutional, thus abolishing the National Recovery Administration and the hundreds of codes it had enacted. President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounced the Courts action, which started him down the road to his ill-fated plan to pack the Court in 1937.As Williamjames Hull Hoffer shows, however, the sick chicken case is about much more than a single piece of New Deal legislation. It is a window into American society during the Great Depression and the New Deala 1930s America before World War II and the Cold War, the age of radio and movie palaces, and a time of experimentation with government that some likened to fascism or communism, or maybe both. More than a landmark law case that threatened the New Deal, but ultimately did not, Schechter Poultry is not just about a sick chicken; it is about a sick nation trying to heal itself.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 11.3.2025
• Reihe/Serie: Landmark Law Cases and American Society
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
• Schlagworte: Business regulation • constitutional crisis • court packing • FDR • Franklin Delano Roosevelt • Great Depression • Landmark Law Cases and American Society series • New Deal • Schecter Poultry v US • US Constitution • US Supreme Court
• ISBN-10: 0-7006-3817-2 / 0700638172
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7006-3817-8 / 9780700638178