Saturday, December 2, 2017

Agricultural Adjustment Act


Part of the New Deal, the Agricultural Adjustment Act (May 12, 1933), created the AAA or the Agricultural Adjustment Administration. This law paid the farmers for limiting their production of crops in order to control the economy better. With all of these farmers producing so much food and the people of the city not having enough money to buy the food, it has created a jam in the economy in which this law can help fix. With declining the amount of food, the crop prices could increase. There were many struggles in the economy at this time for example, the cotton production in Georgia where there was way too much produced, leading to a minimum price of 5.6 cents/pound. This was not good because then these industries could not make profit over their product leading to farmers being pushed off their land. In the next season, the government limited the amount of crops planted in order to keep the prices high enough for the farmers to make a profit. This law supported only the large farmers because they owned their land and sharecroppers didn't, so they wouldn't gain the money earned by the land owner for planting less crops. This drove farmers off the land leading to peoples rights being violated, so the Supreme Court declared the AAA unconstitutional in January of 1936 because of the limit placed on farmers production. Do you believe this act is unconstitutional or not?

2 comments:

  1. I find this act to be unconstitutional in certain aspects. However, at the time the act was put in place, it was necessary to revive the economy. The idea was smart, but there were a few ethics problems that people ran into. While landowners got the money, the farmers did all of the work. The country was very desperate at this time, and by paying the farmers, crop prices went up, and the farmers also spent that money on certain industries, further perpetuating the growth of the economy.

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  2. I think even though unconstitutional in more areas that not, it was time of desperate measures. In such times, such desperate decision were mad leading to the actions behind this act. The idea was to pump money into the agricultural way of life by making farmers businesslife easier to maintain.

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