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The '''Emergency Banking Act''', officially titled the '''Emergency Banking Relief Act''', also sometimes known as the '''War Powers Act of 1933''',<ref>[http://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc817258/m1/1/ Presidential Emergency Powers: The So-Called "War Powers Act of 1933"]</ref> was a legislative response to the [[Great Depression]] and was signed by President [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] on March 9th, 1933.
The Act set the tone for the [[New Deal]] with FDR asserting that he could use war powers to deal with the crisis despite the lack of an actual war.<ref>[http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/131267/liberals-and-people-jonah-goldberg Liberals and the People], [[National Review]]</ref>
==See Also==
* [[Stuart Chase]]
==References==
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The Act set the tone for the [[New Deal]] with FDR asserting that he could use war powers to deal with the crisis despite the lack of an actual war.<ref>[http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/131267/liberals-and-people-jonah-goldberg Liberals and the People], [[National Review]]</ref>
==See Also==
* [[Stuart Chase]]
==References==
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