The real third rail of American politics

Catastrophe: Law, Politics, and the Humanitarian Impulse

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 60-82

  Dauber, Michele Landis ^a  

^a STANFORD LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

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3. Frances Perkins, The Roosevelt I Knew (New York: Random House, 1946), 286.
4. Perkins, "Roots of Social Security";
5. Thomas Hopkinson Eliot, "Legal Background of the Social Security Act" (address delivered at a general staff meeting at Social Security Administration Headquarters, Baltimore, February 3, 1961).
6. West Coast Hotel v. Parrish, 300 U. S. 379 (1937).
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8. Thomas Cooley's authoritative Treatise on the Law of Constitutional Limitations Which Rest upon the Legislative Power of the States of the American Union, 6th ed. (Boston: Little, Brown, 1890)
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10. Lowell v. Boston, 111 Mass. 454 (1873)
11. State v. Osawkee Township, 14 Kan. 418 (1875).
12. Loan Ass'n v. Topeka, 87 U. S. 655, 663 (1874).
13. Fallbrook Irrigation District v. Bradley, 164 U. S. 112, 159 (1896).
14. United States ex rel. Miles Planting and Mfg. Co. v. Carlisle, 5 App. D. C 138 (C. A. D. C. 1895)
15. Congressional Record, 1930, 74, pt. 1:703.
16. Nan Elizabeth Woodruff, As Rare as Rain: Federal Relief in the Great Southern Drought of 1930-31 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1985), 40;
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18. Dulles, The American Red Cross, 277-78.
19. Skocpol, Protecting Soldiers and Mothers.
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32. Carl N. Degler, Out of Our Past (New York: Harper Perennial, 1983).
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35. An Act for the Relief of Thomas Jenkins & Company, ch. 20, 6 Stat. 2 (1790);
36. An Act for the Relief of John Stewart and John Davidson, ch. 37, 6 Stat. 3 (1790).
37. Michelle Landis, "Let Me Next Time Be 'Tried By Fire': Disaster Relief and the Origins of the American Welfare State, 1789-1874", Northwestern University Law Review 92(1998):975-78, 999-1004.
38. (Landis, "Let Me Next Time Be 'Tried by Fire'", 999-1004).
39. Annals of Congress 988 (statement of Rep. Parker).
40. Annals of Congress 988.
41. Annals of Congress 1724 (1796).
42. Congressional Debates 2445 (1836).
43. Congressional Debates 2445 (1836).
44. Congressional Debates 2447 (1836).
45. Thomas Slaughter, The Whiskey Rebellion: Frontier Epilogue to the American Revolution (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988).
46. Annals of Congress 985 (statement of Rep. Sedgwick).
47. Annals of Congress 993 (1794) (statement of Rep. Dexter).
48. Annals of Congress 995 (1794);
49. American State Papers (Claims) no. 114 (1800).
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51. (Congressional Globe, 29th Congress, 2d sess., 1847, 16, pt. 1:505);
52. (12 Stat. 652, ch. 37)
53. (Congressional Globe, 37th Congress, 3d sess., 1863, 34, pt. 1:179, 192, 440-45, 509-18).
54. Sidney Fine, Laissez-Faire and the General Welfare State (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1956), 21;
55. Edward Corwin, "The Spending Power of Congress-Apropos the Maternity Act", Harvard Law Review 36(1923):548;
56. Charles Warren, Congress as Santa Claus: Or, National Donations and the General Welfare Clause of the Constitution (Charlottesville, VA: Michie & Co., 1932), 142.
57. ("The Spending Power of Congress", 579).
58. Warren, Congress as Santa Claus, 110-12.
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60. Senate Committee on Manufactures, Federal Aid for Unemployment Relief: Hearings on S. 5125, 73d Congress, 1st sess., February 2-3, 1933;
61. Brief for the United States at app. C. 61-62, United States v. Butler, 297 U. S. 1 (1936) (no. 401);
62. Brief for Respondent Harold I. Ickes as Federal Emergency Administrator of Public Works at 164 and 80n, app. D, 68-69, Duke Power Co. v. Greenwood County, 299 U. S. 259 (1936) (no. 32).
63. Landis, "Let Me Next Time Be 'Tried By Fire.'"
64. Examples of appropriations for Mississippi River flood relief include the following Acts of Congress: Act of April 23, 1874 (18 Stat. 34, ch. 125) (indefinite amount);
65. Act of May 13, 1874 (18 Stat. 45, ch. 170) ($190, 000);
66. Joint Resolution of February 25, 1882 (22 Stat. 378, no. 6) ($100, 000);
67. Joint Resolution of March 10, 1882 (22 Stat. 378, no. 8) (indefinite amount);
68. Joint Resolution of March 11, 1882 (22 Stat. 378, no. 9) (same);
69. Joint Resolution of March 21, 1882 (22 Stat. 379, no. 12) ($150, 000);
70. Joint Resolution of April 1, 1882 (22 Stat. 379, no. 16) ($100, 000);
71. Act of April 11, 1882 (22 Stat. 44, ch. 77) ($20, 000);
72. Act of March 27, 1884 (26 Stat. 269) ($125, 000);
73. Act of March 31, 1890 (26 Stat. 33, ch. 58) ($25, 000);
74. Joint Resolution of April 21, 1890 (26 Stat. 671, no. 16) ($150, 000);
75. Joint Resolution of April 7, 1897 (30 Stat. 219, no. 9) ($200, 000);
76. Joint Resolution of May 9, 1912 (37 Stat. 663, no. 19) ($1, 239, 179.65);
77. Act of August 26, 1912 (37 Stat. 601) ($4, 500);
78. Act of March 4, 1913 (37 Stat. 919);
79. Act of October 22, 1913 (38 Stat. 215-16) ($785, 388.79);
80. Joint Resolution of February 15, 1916 (39 Stat. 11, ch. 28) (indefinite amount);
81. Joint Resolution of August 3, 1916 (39 Stat. 434, ch. 267) ($540, 000);
82. Act of March 23, 1928 (45 Stat. 359) ($1, 500, 000 for emergency work relief on levees);
83. Act of February 28, 1929 (45 Stat. 1381) ($3, 654, 000) (emergency flood relief and restoration of roads and bridges).
84. Joint Resolution of June 9, 1897 (30 Stat. 221, no. 14).
85. Congressional Globe, 39th Congress, 1st sess., 1866, 37, pt. 1:916.
86. Congressional Globe, 39th Congress, 1st sess., 1866, 37, pt. 5:3913 (House), 3842 (Senate).
87. Congressional Record, 49th Congress, 2d sess., 1887, 18, pt. 2:1875.
88. "Congress Affords Relief: Joint Resolution Passed Appropriating $200, 000 for Mississippi and Red River Flood Sufferers", New York Times, April 8, 1897, 3;
89. "Congress to the Rescue: Appeal from the President in Behalf of the Flood Sufferers", New York Daily Tribune, April 8, 1897, 1;
90. "Relief for El Paso Sufferers", New York Daily Tribune, June 1, 1897, 5;
91. "Aid for the Mississippi Valley Sufferers", New York Times, March 16, 1882, 1.
92. "Relief for the Flood Stricken", New York Daily Tribune, April 8, 1897, 5.
93. Michele Landis Dauber, The Sympathetic State (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, forthcoming);
94. Michele Landis Dauber, "The Sympathetic State", Law and History Review 23(2005):387-442;
95. Michele Landis, "Let Me Next Time Be 'Tried by Fire': Disaster Relief and the Origins of the American Welfare State, 1789-1874", Northwestern Law Review 92(1998):967-1034.
96. Dauber, The Sympathetic State, ch. 3.
97. Dauber, The Sympathetic State, ch.5.
98. Leonard Requa, "The Ohio-Mississippi River Flood Disaster of 1937", American Sociological Review 5(1940):994;
99. President's Proclamation, New York Times, January 24, 1937, 1;
100. "400, 000 Homeless", New York Times, January 25, 1937, 1.
101. "A Relentless Tide", New York Times, January 26, 1937, 1.
102. "Cairo Fights River", New York Times, January 27, 1937, 1.
103. Herbert Gans, The War against the Poor: The Underclass and Anti-Poverty Policy (New York: Basic Books, 1996);
104. Joel Handler and Yeheskel Hasenfeld, Moral Construction of Poverty: Welfare Reform in America (New York: Sage, 1991);
105. Michael Katz, The Undeserving Poor: From the War on Poverty to the War on Welfare (New York: Pantheon, 1990);
106. Linda Gordon, Pitied but Not Entitled: Single Mothers and the History of America Welfare (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998).
107. Katz, The Undeserving Poor.
108. Gordon, Pitied but Not Entitled;
109. Nancy Fraser and Linda Gordon, "A Genealogy of 'Dependency': Tracing a Keyword of the U. S. Welfare State", Signs 19(1994):309;
110. Martha Fineman, The Neutered Mother: The Sexual Family and Other Twentieth Century Tragedies (New York: Routledge, 1995);
111. Jill Quadagno, Color of Welfare: How Racism Undermined the War on Poverty (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996).
112. Gordon, Pitied but Not Entitled.
113. Francis Piven and Richard Coward, Regulating the Poor: The Functions of Public Welfare (New York: Vintage, 1993), 42.
114. Dauber, The Sympathetic State, ch. 4.
115. Franklin D. Roosevelt, "The United States Is Rising and Rebuilding Along Stronger Lines", March 23, 1938, ngeorgia.com/voices/fdr- gainesville2.html.
116. Franklin D. Roosevelt, "Victory Day Speech", March 4, 1937, newdeal.feri.org/court/fdr.htm.
117. "WPA Expands Aid for Flooded Zone", New York Times, February 13, 1937, 28.
118. Congressional Record, 1930, 74, pt. 1:707.
119. "Don't Go Back and Backward with Republicans", Democratic Party Campaign Literature, 1936.