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The End of The New Deal Liberal critics: socialists and extreme liberals in the democratic party believed the new deal was doing too little for the unemployed and working poor and thought the president failed to address the real problems of ethnic minorities, women, and elderly

Conservative critics: were alarmed by the increase in regulations, the second deal’s pro-union stance, and the financing as deficit financing. Demagogues were speakers who used the radio and mass media to reach the population and proposed schemes for ending “evil conspiracies”. Major demagogues were Father Charles E. Coughlin founded the National Union for Social Justice, Dr. Francis E. Townsend who proposed that a 2% federal sales tax be used to create a special fund which would allow every person over 60 to receive $200 a month, and Huey Long who had promised a minimum annual income of $5,000.

__The Supreme Court__ In 1935 the supreme court killed both the NRA for business recovery and the AAA for agricultural recovery by deciding that both were unconstitutional. FDR had no opportunities to appoint a justice and hoped to move around the issue by proposing a “court packing” bill, this would allow FDR to add up to 6 more justices to the court because it proposed that a new justice be added after one had reached a certain age. Both Republicans and Democrats believed FDR had attempted to tamper with the system of checks and balances. As FDR attempted to pack the court justices had begun to take off much of their resistance to his program. In 1937 the supreme court upheld the constitutionality of the Wagner Labor Act and Social Security.