How did the New Deal alter the constitution?

Answer 1

The New Deal saw the federal government and federal agencies grow at a rate not seen since the Civil War. Many were opposed to the growth of the federal government and the corresponding cost to maintain those new governmental agencies. From FDR's New Deal to the present, the federal government has continued to grow, assume an active role in the daily lives of citizens, and to cost more in the form of taxes, and to spend more on domestic and foreign affairs. Many politicians, economists, and students of government did not favor such increases. The New Deal saw the executive office amass a lot of power and become the "major" branch during that period and carrying over to WW II. Never before had a president violated the "informal constitution" by running for a third and forth term. The Constitution, Article I, Section 8, which gives Congress the power to make laws that are "necessary and proper" (the elastic clause) gave increased power via that clause to the Executive and Legislative Branches.