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Topic: Great Depression and New Deal

In the Court-packing struggle of 1937, both sides won and both sides lost.  Could you explain this please?

Posted by ltacher on March 9, 2013 at 2:02 PM via web and tagged with 1937, constitutional law, court-packing plan, great depression and new deal

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    For the purposes of this answer, let us say that the two sides are President Franklin D. Roosevelt on the one side and the anti-New Deal forces on the other.  Both sides did, indeed, both win...

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    Posted by pohnpei397 on March 9, 2013 at 2:55 PM (Answer #1)

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    One of the other reasons that the Court reversed itself in the aftermath of the court-packing fight was that most of the more conservative justices (and indeed some that were not so...

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    Posted by rrteacher on March 9, 2013 at 8:35 PM (Answer #2)

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