 After the passage of the Agricultural Adjustment Act, the Department of Agriculture became the single largest department in the federal government.The Supreme Court struck down the Agricultural Adjustment Act in the 1936 case of "United States v. Butler".Wallace strongly disagreed with the Court's holding that agriculture was a "purely local activity" and thus could not be regulated by the federal government, stating that "were agriculture truly a local matter in 1936, as the Supreme Court says it is, half of the people of the United States would quickly starve."