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Over the course of three terms, starting in 1934, the Supreme Court struck down a large part of the Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, provoking a continuing constitutional crisis. President Roosevelt naturally criticized the Court on a number of occasions, the last time in June of 1936; but because of the negative response from Congress and members of the media in those instances, he said nothing about the Court during the 1936 presidential campaign. Supporters of the New Deal proposed a variety of ways of bringing the Court into line with their program, including statutes to require an extraordinary majority of justices to strike down a law, constitutional amendments to mandate retirement at 70 or 75, and so on (Ross 1994, Stephenson 1998). During the 1936 election, Governor Landon and other Republicans attempted to use the Court’s recalcitrance to portray Roosevelt and the Democrats as enemies of the Constitution, liberty, and property. Notwithstanding the barrage of......

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