Examples of regulation in the following topics:
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- Progressive reformers regarded regulation as a cure for all sorts of socioeconomic and political problems.
- The Progressives argued for the need for government regulation of business practices to ensure competition and free enterprise.
- Many Progressives hoped that by regulating large corporations, they could liberate human energies from the restrictions imposed by industrial capitalism.
- The federal government should allow these companies to exist but should regulate them for the public interest.
- Examine how Progressives argued for increased government regulation of big businesses as a means of protecting free enterprise
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- Ogden was a landmark decision in which the Supreme Court granted Congress the power to regulate interstate commerce.
- Ogden, 22 U.S. 1 (1824), was a landmark decision in which the Supreme Court of the United States held that the power to regulate interstate commerce was granted to Congress by the Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution.
- He held that it was a legitimate exercise of congressional power regulating interstate commerce, and therefore superseded the state law allowing the monopoly.
- This marked the beginning of a 40-year period during which the Supreme Court limited the federal government's ability to regulate under the Interstate Commerce Clause.
- The Court went so far as to say that even activity conducted entirely within one state could be regulated by the federal government if the activity had an effect on interstate commerce.
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- A wide array of regulations was put in place to encourage exports and discourage imports, thereby increasing the nation's profit.
- The government protected its merchants—and kept others out—through trade barriers, regulations, and subsidies to domestic industries in order to maximize exports and minimize imports into the realm.
- Once under British control, regulations were imposed on the colonies that allowed the colony to produce only raw materials and to trade only with Britain.
- Many colonists resented the Navigation Acts because they increased regulation and reduced their opportunities for profit, while England profited from colonial work.
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- Under the Articles of Confederation, the central government's power to regulate financial matters was kept quite limited.
- Congress had also been denied the power to regulate either foreign trade or interstate commerce and, as a result, all of the states maintained control over their own trade policies.
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- The agency's main purpose was to plan and introduce regulations that would boost industrial recovery and employment opportunities.
- These set rules, agreed upon by a coalition of economic actors that would often remain in conflict with each other, were intended to shape the economic recovery by preventing labor disputes, regulating levels of production, preventing further deflation (regulate prices), and establishing fair labor conditions.
- It approved
557 basic and 189 supplemental industry codes in two years and became notorious for generating large numbers of regulations.
- While some complained that the federal government was too involved in the regulation of the industry, others pointed out that it was industries that mostly wrote the codes and thus preserved a fair amount of control.
- Supreme Court unanimously declared that NIRA was unconstitutional, ruling that it delegated legislative powers to the executive and regulated commerce that was not interstate in character.
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- The Agricultural Adjustment Act, one of the more controversial acts, attempted to plan and regulate the agricultural sector of the economy.
- One of the New Deal's more contraversial programs was the Agricultural Adjustment Act, which attempted to plan and regulate the agricultural sector of the economy.
- In 1936, the Supreme Court declared the AAA to be unconstitutional, stating that "a statutory plan to regulate and control agricultural production, [is] a matter beyond the powers delegated to the federal government..."
- Federal regulation of agricultural production has been modified many times since then, but together with large subsidies it is still in effect in 2010.
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- The Republicans campaigned against the New Deal, seeking a less-regulated economy against a still popular President Roosevelt.
- The Republicans campaigned against the New Deal, seeking a smaller government and less-regulated economy as the end of the war seemed in sight.
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- The government protected its London-based merchants—and kept others out—by trade barriers, regulations, and subsidies to domestic industries in order to maximize exports from and minimize imports to the realm.
- Under the Articles of Confederation, Congress was denied the power to regulate either foreign trade or interstate commerce, and as a result, all of the states maintained control over their own trade policies.
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- By a five to four vote, the Supreme Court rejected the argument that the law was necessary to protect the health of bakers, deciding it was a labor law attempting to regulate the terms of employment, and calling it an, "unreasonable, unnecessary, and arbitrary interference with the right and liberty of the individual to contract."
- The term "laissez-faire" refers to an economic environment in which transactions between private parties are free from government interference such as regulations, privileges, tariffs, and subsidies.
- During the Lochner Era, the Supreme Court issued several controversial decisions invalidating progressive federal and state statutes that sought to regulate working conditions during the Progressive Era and the Great Depression.
- Parrish (1937), in which the Supreme Court took a much broader view of the government's power to regulate economic activities.
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- In time, they persuaded many state legislatures to pass laws regulating railroads.
- Illinois, the Supreme Court rejected a constitutional attack on a state law regulating the transportation and warehousing of grain; the court declared that the "police powers" of the states permit the regulation of property put to public uses.
- But, over time, many state railroad laws were struck down because they interfered with interstate commerce, which only Congress may regulate constitutionally.