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2007490492007. ISBN-13: 9781584778080; ISBN-10: 1584778083. Complete Set of Senate Hearings on FDR's Court-Packing Plan United States Senate. Reorganization of the Federal Judiciary. Hearings before the Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate Seventy-fifth Congress First Session on S. 1392 a Bill to Reorganize the Judicial Branch of the Government. Originally published: Washington: Government Printing Office 1937. 2040 49 pp. 6 parts in 3 vols. Reprinted 2007 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. Set ISBN-13: 9781584778080. Set ISBN-10: 1584778083. Hardcover. New. $595. Complete reprint of the sole edition. Includes the Adverse Report and Hearings Part 1 to 6. This set of hearing transcripts and the texts of supporting documents chronicles the history of Franklin D. Roosevelt's court-packing plan and its defeat in the United States Senate. Angered by the Court's hostility to legislation relating to the New Deal Roosevelt proposed a bill to expand the membership of the court on February 5 1937. Presented as a way to increase efficiency it was intended to create seats for justices who would support the New Deal. The resulting struggle was a critical episode in Roosevelt's presidency and one of the nastiest clashes between the executive and judiciary in American history. Roosevelt's plan failed but the debate had a profound effect on the Court's attitude toward the New Deal which lead many to believe that the president was ultimately successful. unknown books
2007530732007. ISBN 1584778083. United States Senate. Reorganization of the Federal Judiciary. Hearings before the Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate Seventy-fifth Congress First Session on S. 1392 a Bill to Reorganize the Judicial Branch of the Government. Washington: Government Printing Office 1937. 2040 49 pp. 6 parts in 3 vols. Reprinted 2007 by The Lawbook Exchange Ltd. Set ISBN-13: 9781584778080. Set ISBN-10: 1584778083. Cloth. Light shelfwear corners bumped light soiling to fore-edge of Volume I internally clean $475. Complete reprint of the sole edition. Includes the Adverse Report and Hearings Part 1 to 6. This set of hearing transcripts and the texts of supporting documents chronicles the history of Franklin D. Roosevelt's court-packing plan and its defeat in the United States Senate. Angered by the Court's hostility to legislation relating to the New Deal Roosevelt proposed a bill to expand the membership of the court on February 5 1937. Presented as a way to increase efficiency it was intended to create seats for justices who would support the New Deal. The resulting struggle was a critical episode in Roosevelt's presidency and one of the nastiest clashes between the executive and judiciary in American history. Roosevelt's plan failed but the debate had a profound effect on the Court's attitude toward the New Deal which lead many to believe that the president was ultimately successful. unknown books
