Trivia for U.S History?

Question

The Supreme Court declared the Industrial Recovery Act unconstitutional partly because it:

A. discriminated against African Americans
B. gave legislative powers to the executive
C. allowed for government-approved monopolies
D. was a form of taxation without representation

Answer 1

B. gave legislative powers to the executive branch of the government

Answer 2

The NIRA was overturned in May 1935 when the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously ruled in the case Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States (295 U.S. 495, 1935), sometimes called the "sick chicken" case, that the Act infringed upon states' authority, unreasonably stretched the Commerce Clause, and gave legislative powers to the executive branch in violation of the Nondelegation doctrine.