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-What was the Fair Labor Standards Act?
-What was it amended to?
-Was the amended version Constitutional? |
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-An act that set a minimum wage and maximum hours.
-It was amended to include states' employees.
-No! |
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| Why was the amended version of the Fair Labor Standards Act unconstitutional? |
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Definition
| It held back the states' "ability to function effectively in a federal system." |
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| Fill in: "If Congress may withdraw from the States the authority to make those fundamental employment decisions upon which their systems for performance of these functions must rest,__________" |
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| ". . .we think there would be little left of the States' 'separate and independent existence.'' |
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| Did Nat. League involve the commerce clause? |
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Definition
| No. The states conceded that the act was within Congress's commerce clause power. |
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| What case did National League overturn? |
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-What war was going on during Youngstown Sheet and Tube?
-What President was involved? |
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| How was the National Labor Relations Act involved? |
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Definition
| It gave Truman the power to keep unions from striking. He decided not to use that power, though, because he was sympathetic to the union members. |
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| What was the result of the seizure of the steel mills? |
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Definition
| The workers' conditions improved. |
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| What were the two questions the Court answered, and how did it anser them? |
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1) Does this situation require a Constitutional decision? Yes.
2) Does the President have the power to do what he did? No. |
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| What was Truman's argument for intervening? |
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| He said he could do it because it was an emergency and he was the Commander in Chief. |
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| What was Justice Jackson's 3-tier approach? |
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1) P + C (maximum authority)
2) P (intermediate authority)
3) P - C (least authority)
Decision was Tier-3 because Congress could have given him the power to intervene but decided not to. |
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