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The New Deal was assumed by most to be totally constitutional, however this might not be the total picture. Some of the legislation passed in the Hundred Days of emergency during 1933 blatantly defied parts of the constitution. In some cases, the President was given authority that was delegated specifically to the legislative branch. Franklin D. Roosevelt had just beat Hoover in a presidential election just under five months before he called the legislature in for …

…the New Deal was reactionary. Following the stock market crash (incidentally only 12 points) the 1920's and 1930's were a period of bleak depression. FDR did what he believed the country needed, relief, recovery, reform. Although the government is legally tied to the constitution, but in this case they broke the rules. They clearly unconstitutional acts, but the people wanted it. Whether the government caused the depression, it clearly helped pull the country out of one.