Word: aaa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...require an unheard-of amount of Government supervision. With the election of Roosevelt, Wilson was able to convince the incoming Agriculture Secretary, Henry Wallace, to carry out his idea. "I tell you frankly that it is a new and untrod path," Roosevelt declared in sending the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) to Congress that May, "but . . . an unprecedented condition calls for the trial of new means...
...constitutional prerogatives and duties of Congress." The NRA case was the most important of the dozens challenging New Deal legislation that had been filed in the courts, but more trouble lay ahead. The following January, by a vote of 6 to 3, the court struck down the whole AAA program to regulate agriculture. The fact that Congress felt there was "a situation of national concern" did not give it the right...
...course, the intention here is not to counsel the BSA or AAA in survival politics; in fact, just the opposite is true. By acting as though they have the mandate their names imply, they have both become guilty of the most odious hubris...
...Both the AAA and the BSA have yet to demonstrate that they speak for a significant fraction of the constituencies they claim to represent. The confusion could best be resolved by taking a poll to discover how many Black and Asian students expressly wish to be represented by the BSA and the AAA...
With respect to the questions before the Constitution Committee of the council, we have addressed primarily two issues. First, the illegitimacy and, when taken to its logical conclusion, the puerility of the GSA's demand for permanent representation, and secondly, the illogical premise from which the BSA and AAA claim their authority to make demands on the behalf of all Blacks and Asians...