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Franklin Roosevelt and the Great Constitutional War: The Court-Packing Crisis of
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Franklin Roosevelt and the Great Constitutional War: The Court-Packing Crisis of 1937 Hardcover - 2002 - 1st Edition

by Marian McKenna


From the publisher

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. Cummings, a "reorganization of the federal judiciary," or what in fact constituted a bald-faced attempt to "pack" the Supreme Court in 1937. No issue in domestic politics ever aroused the country>'s anger as did the presidential proposal to increase the size of the Supreme Court to fifteen by giving the president power to appoint a new judge for every justice over the age of 70 who refused to resign or retire. For background, the case histories which led up to this bold stroke are, for the first time, chronicled and analyzed in a setting that places the stirring events which ensued in their proper perspective. The importance of the book's subject, the thorough documentation, its reasoned and reasonable criticism, all set forth in a lively, but lucid writing style should give this book a popular readership that reaches well beyond academia.

Details

  • Title Franklin Roosevelt and the Great Constitutional War: The Court-Packing Crisis of 1937
  • Author Marian McKenna
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 612
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Fordham University Press, New York
  • Date January 1, 2002
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780823221547 / 0823221547
  • Weight 2.52 lbs (1.14 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.26 x 6.34 x 1.71 in (23.52 x 16.10 x 4.34 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - History, United States - Politics and government -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002003885
  • Dewey Decimal Code 347.732

About the author


Marian C. McKenna is Professor Emeritus at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada.