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Agricultural Adjustment Administration (view source)
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==Unconstitutional==
==Unconstitutional==
In the two years of the first AAA’s existence it distributed some $700 million to farmers to restrict production and keep farm prices high.
The AAA was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States in the case United States v. Butler ''et al''. (297 U.S. 1, January 6, 1936) because it gave the Executive branch powers that belonged to Congress. Congress then reqrote the law, creating a '''second AAA''' that achieved part of the original Act's goals with the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act of 1936 until the enactment of a second AAA (P.L. 75-430) on February 16, 1938. This second AAA was funded from general taxation, and therefore acceptable to the Supreme Court.
The AAA was declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States in the case United States v. Butler ''et al''. (297 U.S. 1, January 6, 1936) because it gave the Executive branch powers that belonged to Congress. Congress then rewrote the law, creating a '''second AAA''' that achieved part of the original Act's goals with the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act of 1936 until the enactment of a second AAA (P.L. 75-430) on February 16, 1938. This second AAA was funded from general taxation, and therefore acceptable to the Supreme Court.
==Communist influence==
==Communist influence==