Supreme Power: Franklin Roosevelt vs. the Supreme CourtW. W. Norton & Company, 2011 M03 14 - 512 pages "A stunning work of history."—Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of No Ordinary Time and Team of Rivals 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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... pack the Court . Roosevelt would subdue the Court's conservatives by outnumbering them . In an audacious gambit , he would ask Congress to enlarge the Court's membership to fifteen - adding , essentially overnight , up to six liberals ...
... pack the Court . Roosevelt would subdue the Court's conservatives by outnumbering them . In an audacious gambit , he would ask Congress to enlarge the Court's membership to fifteen - adding , essentially overnight , up to six liberals ...
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... Court-packing plan “laid beside the plate of each justice and then take three cocktails to fortify himself against their reactions.” The first lady, Eleanor, joined the president in the study, gently reprov- ing him for the frayed state ...
... Court-packing plan “laid beside the plate of each justice and then take three cocktails to fortify himself against their reactions.” The first lady, Eleanor, joined the president in the study, gently reprov- ing him for the frayed state ...
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... Court is bound to follow as a matter of course . " And if it did not ? The professor added ominously that " no one would be surprised if Congress and the President should utilize the power , which they always have in reserve , of ' packing ...
... Court is bound to follow as a matter of course . " And if it did not ? The professor added ominously that " no one would be surprised if Congress and the President should utilize the power , which they always have in reserve , of ' packing ...
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... court's armour through which a weapon might some day penetrate . " In 1789 , Congress set the Court's membership ... pack ” the Court . Yet it loomed , as ever , as a threat - just as Bryce had foreseen . “ This method , " he wrote ...
... court's armour through which a weapon might some day penetrate . " In 1789 , Congress set the Court's membership ... pack ” the Court . Yet it loomed , as ever , as a threat - just as Bryce had foreseen . “ This method , " he wrote ...
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... Court , then what , Bryce asked , could stop them from packing it ? Not the mechanism of government . Not the ... Court in 1869 , raising the number of justices to nine . And there it stood . By the time Frank- lin Roosevelt became ...
... Court , then what , Bryce asked , could stop them from packing it ? Not the mechanism of government . Not the ... Court in 1869 , raising the number of justices to nine . And there it stood . By the time Frank- lin Roosevelt became ...
Contents
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SEVEN The Last Thin Line | 107 |
EIGHT Black Monday | 127 |
NINE Opening Gun | 147 |
FOURTEEN Plans and Purposes | 239 |
FIFTEEN Warning Bell | 259 |
seventeen The Beginning of | 291 |
twentythree Blood or Ink | 416 |
twentyfour The Switch in Time | 429 |
twentyseven To Fight Against God | 479 |
epilogue We Have Only Just Begun to Fight | 501 |
Acknowledgments | 531 |
ELEVEN Slow Poison | 173 |
TWELVE A Project of Great Importance | 199 |
THIRTEEN NoMansLand | 218 |
Bibliography | 603 |
Index | 617 |
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