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Title Franklin Roosevelt and the great constitutional war : the court-packing crisis of 1937 / Marian C. McKenna. Edition 1st ed. Imprint New York : Fordham University Press, 2002.
This study evolves around an attempt of President Franklin D. Roosevelt to induce the Congress to pass a bill to reorganize the national judiciary and the reaction of various groups toward this proposal. While the original bill to reform the national judiciary touched on several phases of judicial reorganization, this study is devoted entirely to that phase of the measure which provided for an ...
Dec 12, 2003 · The New Deal “Constitutional Revolution” as an Historical Problem. The past quarter century has witnessed a major shift in the structures of American politics, often characterized as the passing of “the New Deal order.”. G. Edward White’s superb new book The Constitution and the New Deal is a monument to that sea change, a clear-eyed ...
Ultimately, that is, the constitutional crisis of 1937 underscores the vexed problems of causation and interpretation. Serena Mayeri asks what we might make of a hypothetical newly discovered diary entry by Justice Roberts indicating that the 1936 election results moved him to side with the majority in Parrish.
Mar 1, 2004 · Franklin Roosevelt and the Great Constitutional War: The Court-Packing Crisis of 1937. By Marian C. McKenna. By Marian C. McKenna. (New York: Fordham University Press, 2002. xxviii, 612 pp. $60.00, isbn 0-8232-2154-7.)
May 13, 2019 · A constitutional crisis only matters if someone in Congress is willing to do something about it. ... (the 1937 Court-packing threat and the 1832 Nullification Crisis). In other words, the Court ...
Get this from a library! Franklin Roosevelt and the great constitutional war : the court-packing crisis of 1937. [Marian C McKenna] -- This new history of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Great Constitutional War is a critical, revisionist portrayal of FDR's personal role in initiating, with the advice of his attorney general, Homer S. ...
