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End federal regimentation: no revival of NRA or AAA controls, no more emergency powers over production, wages and hours — Alf Landon, 1936

Similar by solution solution · rationale

Score	Cycle	Candidate	Issue	Position
0.55	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Working hours and labor standards	Revive the NRA's principles 'by one device or another' (imputed; the President would not say)
0.55	1932	Herbert Hoover	Public ownership of electric power	Federal regulation of interstate power; opposition to government operation of the power business
0.55	1932	Herbert Hoover	Maintenance of wage levels in depression	Uphold wages and spread work by voluntary agreement of employers and labor; shorter hours in government service
0.55	1936	Frank Knox	Overall role and scale of the federal government	Fair, honest, economical and efficient government; preserve free enterprise against 'amateur economic planners'
0.54	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Public employment offices	A federally coordinated system of state employment offices (the vetoed Wagner bill)
0.53	1932	Herbert Hoover	Right to organize and bargain collectively	Collective bargaining by representatives of the employees' own choice, 'without the interference of any one'
0.53	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Overall role and scale of the federal government	Government as a check on concentrated economic power — "individualism" redefined as equality of opportunity
0.52	1936	Alf Landon	Equal rights and opportunity for Black Americans	Equal opportunity for colored citizens: protect their economic status and personal safety; further their employment
0.51	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Concentrated economic power vs. the average citizen (rhetorical framing)	Take power from the 'economic royalists': the mandate of 1932 is to end economic tyranny
0.51	1936	Alf Landon	Amending the Constitution to enlarge (or restrain) federal power	Wages, hours and child labor by State law and interstate compact -- and a constitutional amendment giving the States power if the courts forbid
0.49	1932	Norman Thomas	Public works as employment policy	A $5 billion federal public-works program — roads, reforestation, slum clearance, workers' housing — and idle factories and land turned over to the unemployed
0.49	1932	Herbert Hoover	Federal responsibility for relief	Relief through voluntary mobilization and local responsibility, with RFC loans to exhausted states — no federal dole
0.49	1932	Herbert Hoover	Public works as employment policy	Federal construction at three times normal and $1.5 billion of RFC loans for self-liquidating works — but no pork-barrel or non-productive projects
0.49	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Overall role and scale of the federal government	Remove government from private enterprise except public works and natural resources
0.49	1932	Herbert Hoover	Overall role and scale of the federal government	Preserve 'ordered freedom' and equality of opportunity; reject a state-controlled or state-directed economy as 'tyranny'
0.49	1932	Herbert Hoover	Farm and home mortgage relief	Reorganize and enlarge the Federal Land Banks to refinance farm mortgages; curb Joint Stock Land Bank abuses
0.48	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Direct relief for the unemployed	Provide useful work at prevailing wages for the needy unemployed rather than a dole
0.48	1932	Albert C. Ritchie	National Prohibition	Repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment as a matter of states' rights
0.48	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Amending the Constitution to enlarge (or restrain) federal power	Meet constitutional obstacles by 'clarifying amendment' -- and say nothing about the Supreme Court
0.47	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Overall role and scale of the federal government	An "economic declaration of rights" — the right to make a living and the right to safe savings
0.47	1936	Alf Landon	Conservation of natural resources	Real soil conservation and a national land-use and flood-prevention program run with the States and 'out of politics'
0.47	1932	Norman Thomas	Farm and home mortgage relief	Government aid to farmers and small home-owners against foreclosure and tax sales; moratorium on interest debated
0.47	1936	Alf Landon	Antitrust and concentration of economic power	Use the full power of the federal government to break up private monopolies and enforce the antitrust laws 'without fear or favor'
0.46	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Civil service and patronage	Immediately extend the merit system to all non-policy-making federal positions
0.46	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Overall role and scale of the federal government	"A new deal for the American people" — work and security through liberal, planned government action