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Handout F: Comparing Legislation Graphic Organizer

Interstate Commerce Act of 1887 Agricultural Adjustment Act of 1933 National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 Equal Opportunity Act of 1964
What was/is the purpose of the act?
Which Article or Section of the Constitution can be cited to show the act’s constitutionality, if any?
Did this act create a government agency? What are the powers of the agency? Who oversees the agency?
Did this act cause a shift in power from the legislature to the executive? In what way?
Is this act still in effect? Why or why not?

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