Franklin Roosevelt and the Great Constitutional War

Franklin Roosevelt and the Great Constitutional War

The Court-packing Crisis of 1937

by Marian Cecilia McKenna

612 pages· 2002· ISBN 9780823221547
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This important book is a detailed reinterpretation of one of the most explosive events in modern American politics - Franklin Roosevelt's controversial attempt in 1937 to "pack" the Supreme Court by adding justices who supported his New Deal policies. McKenna traces in unprecedented detail theorigins of FDR's plan, its secret history, and the President's final failure. Drawing on a remarkable range of sources McKenna provides the definitive account of a turning point in American political and legal history.

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