"The Supreme Court and the Constitution"
Pamphlet
By: Robert E. Cushman
Date: 1936
Source: Cushman, Robert E. "The Supreme Court and the Constitution." Public Affairs Pamphlet 7, 1936, 1–36. Available online at http://newdeal.feri.org/court/cushman.htm (accessed February 7, 2003).
Introduction
In February 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) surprised most people in Congress when he sent them a bill to increase the number of justices on the Supreme Court. Soon to be called the "court-packing bill," Roosevelt hoped to increase the number of justices he could nominate to ensure that the body would uphold the New Deal legislation's constitutionality.
After conservative justices had been appointed to the Court in the 1920s, a majority on the body held a restrictive interpretation of the regulatory power of the federal government. The...
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