Differences Between New Deal Era Regulations

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with the Gross National Product (GNP), which measures the amount of money a country makes, fell more than 9.4 and unemployment rising to 8.7 percent. But the worst was yet to come in 1932 when the GNP fell 13.4 percent and unemployment reached a staggering 23.6 percent.
Along came Roosevelt in 1932, defeating Herbert Hoover for President, mostly based on his achievements for helping his home state of New York with an effective state relief program. In a speech at his Democratic presidential nomination, Roosevelt stated, "I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people." (Over View of the Great Depression. 1996)
The key to understanding New Deal legislation is to remember that it was aimed at curing the economic ills that prevailed during the Great Depression. However, as we begin to examine future legislation, we can see that the basic model remains the same and that additional regulation is an extension of the New Deal regulatory model. If we examine ...

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appeals about the beauty of the mountains, deserts, rivers and natural wonders. Environmentalists were most effective politically when they raised the flag of public health. (The War on Pollution, January 2001)
During this time period, as with the Great Depression, environmental laws evolved as issues become evident. As with FDR's New Deal legislation, people were concerned with what these laws meant to the various segments of our society.
An interesting fact in examining all of these regulatory policies is that between the time of the U.S. Constitution and the Civil War, states held more power over regulatory policies than the federal government. As the country began to grow, ...

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