After a long history of limited government in the United
States, the Franklin Roosevelt Administration in the 1930s, responding to
the hardships of the Great Depression, launched a whole series of
government programs in an attempt to improve social and economic
conditions. In so doing, the Roosevelt Administration seemingly changed
forever the role of the national government in American politics. Assess
the consequences of this major change in national politics—what has
been good, and what has been the bad from your perspective?
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