How did republicans respond to the great depression?

Republicans – and particularly President Herbert Hoover – pointed to World War I and the depression in Europe that followed it as the primary cause for the Great Depression. Hoover proposed that the solution to the depression was to offer loans to farmers and businesses and to otherwise wait until market conditions improved on their own.

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a social contract.

"a social contract is an agreement between citizens and their leader where the citizens give up certain freedoms in exchange for protection. the constitution of the united states is an example of a social contract."