Happy Constitution Day!
Research papers (6 pp.): how a federal policy affected you or someone close to you.
Final exam: identifications, 1-paragraph essays, longer essays
Note that we are already seeing the themes of the course:
- Issue-Attention Cycle and the 100 Days
- Policy Creating Politics: Wagner Act and union growth
- Social Security and Path Dependency
- Limits of foreknowledge: WWII and the Baby Boom
- Today:
- Connections of diverse issues
- The rhyme of history
- Johnson, ch. 5.
Welfare: "Deservingness" and the "Truly Needy"
- Pre-New Deal?
- Unemployment insurance (again the insurance model)
- What was ADC?
- Why was ADC uncontroversial at first?
- What did policymakers fail to anticipate? (See Gillon 74-76)
- Laid track for the evolution of the issue in the 1960s:
- Harrington and "War on Poverty"
- Backlash
After the Second New Deal:
FDR wins a landslide reelection, what then?
Last Thursday I described the American form of government as a three-horse team provided by the Constitution to the American people so that their field might be plowed. The three horses are, of course, the three branches of government—the Congress, the Executive, and the courts. Two of the horses are pulling in unison today; the third is not.
- Senate votes 70-20 to recommit
- Consolation prize: the Court changes anyway
- Recent battles over court nominations: similarities and differences?
Independent Agencies
- Humphrey's Executor limited appointment power
- IN THE NEWS RIGHT NOW.
Government Reorganization
- Every executive agency would have come under the control of one of the cabinet departments. Congress whittles it down, but does lead to EOP
- DOGE!
Purging Party Enemies and Rewarding Friends
- Goes after conservative Democrats in 1938 primaries. He loses many fights,
- In the 1937 special election, an FDR fanboy wins a special election in Texas.
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