The New Deal wholeheartedly supported the American ideal of freedom. In essence, the New Deal was the embodiment of American freedom; although, it was not freedom of each and every individual, but the freedom of economic security and opportunity for America as a nation. After all, the New Deal was entirely Roosevelt’s brainchild; and, Roosevelt persistently stressed the idea of economic freedom going hand-in-hand with economic stability (“The Contested History of American Freedom”). There were some who believed that Roosevelt’s New Deal would violate the widely accepted economic principle of Laissez Faire; in turn, restricting American freedom. Although the New Deal may have been a drastic shift from the free-market approach of Laissez Faire,
