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Supreme power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme Court

By Jeff , Franklin Delano; Roosevelt , United States. Supreme Court;United States. Supreme Court.; USA; Roosevelt , Franklin Delano; Shesol

Book information

Publisher
W. W. Norton Company
ISBN
9780393079418, 0393079414
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
1 MB (1347997 bytes)
Edition
First edition
Pages
x, 644 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates: illus
Time added
2020-11-29 04:29:52
History;Nonfiction;Politics;Law;North American Hi.

Description

Beginning in 1935, the Supreme Court's conservative majority left much of FDR's agenda in ruins. The pillars of the New Deal fell in short succession. It was not just the New Deal but democracy itself that stood on trial. In February 1937, Roosevelt struck back with an audacious plan to expand the Court to fifteen justices—and to "pack" the new seats with liberals who shared his belief in a "living" Constitution.

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