Roosevelt held the position that the government should be able to regulate trusts. Theodore Roosevelt was the 26th U.S. President.
Increasing number of people supported expanding the role of the federal government to ensure the welfare of people. Roosevelt believed the federal government should act as a "trustee" for the American people, by controlling and supervising the economy in the public interest.
Trusts changed during President Theodore Roosevelt's presidency. It was called Roosevelt's Square Deal policy and it attempted to balance trusts and public control.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt believed that the only way to get the country out of the Great Depression was to create programs. These programs laid the groundwork for some of the current government assistance programs.
the federal government should be limited in power
the federal government should be limited in power
Zivko Budimir is the President of Bosnia and Herzegovina's Federal Government.
The Republicans who opposed President Roosevelt believed he was going to expand the government, add too many new government employees, and increase government spending. Then, as now, Republicans believed in a limited role for government, and as they saw it, Roosevelt's plans to end the Depression would cost too much and create new federal bureaucracies. Whether these objections were reasonable or partisan depends on which side you were on. As Democrats saw it, Republican policies had contributed to the Depression and drastic action needed to be taken in order to put America back on the right path and help Americans find work. And as Republicans saw it, Roosevelt was going about it in the wrong way. The American public, however, seemed to side with Roosevelt and the Democrats, re-electing the president despite Republican opposition.
He didn't like them, and if a corporate entity had a virtual monopoly and were jacking up rates just because they could, and thus treating people badly, he felt that it was his mission to stop them.
A federal government like that of the USA
Yes. President Roosevelt's attempt to pack the Supreme Court represented an unconstitutional violation of the separation of powers, and would have given him almost dictatorial control over the federal government.
The Federal government was not involved in the Jim Crow laws. Those laws were enacted by the former Confederate states.
Mirsad Kebo is the Vice President of Bosnia and Herzegovina's Federal Government.