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In 1936 the entire AAA program was eliminated by the Supreme Court, which ruled in United States v. Butler that Congress had no constitutional right to regulate agriculture, and invalidated the taxes raised to pay for the AAA. Conservatives were heartened by the decision, but their joy was shortlived. The AAA was successful and popular enough that Congress re-created it in a form more acceptable to the Supreme Court in 1936 with the passage of the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act. To the original AAA programs of price supports, agricultural education, and debt relief were added a system of warehouses, which held agricultural products until a good price for them existed in the marketplace — an idea that had been prominent in the farm belt since the 1880s. Thus, by 1936 the farm crisis was fundamentally over, with the number of American farmers sharply reduced...
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