Question refers to the excerpt below. "Wholly apart from that question, another principle embedded in our Constitution prohibits the enforcement of the Agricultural Adjustment Act. The act invades the reserved
rights of the states. It is a statutory plan to regulate and control agricultural production, a matter beyond the powers delegated to the federal government. The tax, the
appropriation of the funds raised, and the direction for their disbursement are but parts of the plan. They are but means to an unconstitutional end.
From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, It follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as
are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people None to regulate agricultural production is given, and therefore legislation by Congress for that purpose is
forbidden."-Justice Roberts, from the majority opinion in United States v. Butler, 1936
How did the Supreme Court react to New Deal legislation?
Olt tried to limit some First New Deal programs but was more accepting of federal government action related to the Second New Deal.
It accepted First New Deal programs as a response to the economic crisis but made decisions that limited the Second New Deal.
Olt decided that most New Deal programs went beyond Ilmits on federal power because they took away the ability of states to regulate their own interests.
It ruled that federal intervention was allowed to supersede state Interests If the state government was unable to fund local New Deal programs.