02023     2200301   4500001002100000005001500021035002000036008004100056020001800097041000800115082001100123084001700134100002300151245011300174250000900287260004800296520104800344650004201392650006201434650005401496300002401550990002501574990002401599990002501623990002401648990002401672990002501696INLIS00000000000992320221109100716  a0010-0520009923221109                g          0 eng    a0-8232-2154-7  aeng  a347.73  a347.73 MCK f0 aMcKenna, Marian C.1 aFranklin Roosevelt and the Great Constitutional War :bThe Court-Packing Crisis of 1937 /cMarian C. McKenna  aed.1  aNew York :bFordham University Press,c2002  aThis new history of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Great Constitutional War is a critical, revisionist portrayal of FDRs 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 countrys 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 books 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. 4aUnited States. Supreme Court--History 4aJudges--Selection and appointment--United States--History 4aUnited States--Politics and government--1933-1945  axxvi 612 p ;c24 cm  a26473/MKRI-P/XI-2018  a26904/MKRI-P/V-2022  a26473/MKRI-P/XI-2018  a26904/MKRI-P/V-2022  a26904/MKRI-P/V-2022  a26473/MKRI-P/XI-2018