Why did people oppose the new deal was it because they were rich?

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Why did people oppose the new deal was it because they were rich?

        There are many factors contributing to why people opposed the new deal. In this essay I am going to look at the opposition of the Supreme Court and the “sick chickens” case, the opposition of ambitious politicians, opposition of rich businessmen, and the opposition of farmers and black people.

`        The opposition of the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court consisted of nine judges and in 1935 and 1936 they said that a lot of Roosevelt’s new deals was unconstitutional. This all started with a case called the “sick chicken” case which was with four brothers called Schechter these brothers signed a NRA code agreeing to the NRA rules of fair prices, fair wages and fair competition. In 1935 the brothers broke one of the codes by selling diseased chickens. The NRA went to court with the brothers there the Supreme Court heard appeal. But the court thought that the NRA was in the wrong when they meddled with the poultry trade and said that the NRA code that the brothers signed was illegal and all similar codes also became illegal overnight the NRA had to scrap 750 of its codes. The case of the “sick chickens” destroyed the NRA. After this the court found a lot more problems with the agencies that Roosevelt had founded. In all the alphabet court tried 16 cases concerning the alphabet agencies and they were all found illegal the judges declared that Roosevelt had acted against the country’s constitution.

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        There were also other politicians against Roosevelt and had ideas of there own to solve Americas problems.

        Senator Huey Long from the state of Louisiana was the best know opponent of the new deal. In speeches he always criticised Roosevelt for not doing enough for the poor people of America. He put forward an alternative to the new deal called the “Shear our Wealth” he promised that if the people voted him president that he would confiscate any fortune that was over 3 million dollars and the money would be given to every American family as a sum of $4000 ...

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