Benchmarks in Government 1901-1981 Order ID: Benchmarks in the Rise of Big Gov. 1901 -- 1981

Benchmarks in the Rise of Big Government

The United States of American 1901 -- 1981

The purpose of this paper is to identify major benchmarks in the history of the United States between the years 1901 to 1982 that gave the government more power and made the government a larger machine that it was already.

Since the original conception of a democratic government in the United States and the original governing documents of the Constitution and The Bill of Rights there have been many changes, modifications and about face turns by the government in the United States. During the years spanning 1901 to 1981 legislation was enacted that gave to the government more power than was originally conceived and the government steadily grew larger and loomed darker casting its shadow across the entire spectrum of the elements within the United States and grew uncontrollably into a large mechanism that has slowly but surely drop kicked the framework of the Constitution far off into the sidelines while enacting restrictive and invasive laws into the mainstream of government.

I. Overview of Uniformity in Government:

The years of 1901 through 1908 were characterized by the government...

President Woodrow Wilson was the President during this era of time. The first of these Uniform Acts was the Uniform Warehouse Receipts Act followed by the Uniform Desertion Act, the Non- support Act and uniform marriage act was authorized as well as an Act for regulation of marriage annulment and divorce of marriage was also adopted. The real work on the Uniform Corporation Act. By the year 1910 there had been twenty uniform acts approved including the Uniform Partnership Act. Following these acts were the Uniform marriage and marriage license act and the Uniform Child Labor Act was approved. By 1915 the Constitution and by-laws underwent a complete revision.
II. The Federal Reserve: A Corporation

"The Federal Reserve Act (Currency Bill/Owen Glass Act) set out a framework for a system containing eight to twelve regional reserve banks that would be the property of commercial banks and the actions under the supervision of a committee and was signed into law by President Wilson December 23, 1913 creating the "Federal Reserve System." There have been vital changes in the documents first in the time of the Great Depression and next the…