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  E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49355855 Title: Franklin Roosevelt and the great constitutional war : the court-packing crisis of 1937 Author: Marian C McKenna Publisher: New York : Fordham University Press, 2002. ISBN/ISSN: 0823221547 9780823221547 OCLC:49355855

  
  

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Franklin Roosevelt and the great constitutional war : the court-packing crisis of 1937

Author:	Marian C McKenna
Publisher:	New York : Fordham University Press, 2002.
Edition/Format:	Print book : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
Summary:	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 case histories are an integral part of the historical episode popularly known as the court fight. 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.-- Publisher description.  Read more...
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Subjects	United States. -- Supreme Court -- History. Judges -- Selection and appointment -- United States -- History. United States -- Politics and government -- 1933-1945. View all subjects
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