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  1. None of this can be gainsaid. But thanks in part to the revelations discovered in the newly available Hughes Court docket books, the long-standing claim that the nation underwent a “Constitutional Revolution” in the spring of 1937 appears exceedingly weak indeed.

  2. More significantly, the switch in the court that spring resulted in what historians call “the constitutional revolution of 1937”—the legitimation of a greatly expanded exercise of powers by ...

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  4. 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 ...

  5. The “constitutional revolution of 1937” was an act of doctrinal evolution occurring between 1934 and 1942. [23] Neither FDR’s 1936 triumph nor Court packing had much to do with this evolution. The Court had gutted New Deal legislation after “the Democrats’ spectacular success in 1934.”.

  6. Sep 20, 2017 · The nature and sources of the New Deal Constitutional Revolution are among the most discussed and debated subjects in constitutional historiography. Scholars have reached significantly divergent conclusions concerning how best to understand the meaning and the causes of constitutional decisions rendered by the Supreme Court under Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes. Though recent years have ...

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