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FDR's Court Proposal: Resources

Supreme Court Decisions
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Letters to FDR
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Renee Wygant

Supreme Court Decisions

  1. Home Building & Loan Assn. v. Blaisdell 290 U.S. 398 (1934)

  2. Nebbia v. New York 291 U.S. 502 (1934)

  3. A. L. A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States 295 U.S. 495 (1935)

  4. United States v. Butler 297 U.S. 1 (1936)

  5. Ashwander v. Tennessee Valley Authority 297 U.S. 288 (1936)

  6. Carter v. Carter Coal Co. 298 U.S. 238 (1936)

  7. West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish 300 U.S. 379 (1937)

  8. National Labor Relations Board v. Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp. 301 U.S. 1 (1937)

  9. Steward Machine Co. v. Collector of Internal Revenue 301 U.S. 548 (1937)

  10. United States v. Carolene Products Co. 304 U.S. 144 (1938)

Primary Documents

    Speech Index

  1. Adams, James Truslow. "What the Supreme Court Does for Us"

  2. Bailey, Josiah W. "We Are Dealing With the Source of Justice"

  3. Borah, William E. "Our Supreme Judicial Tribunal: Proposed Changes and the People"

  4. Bulkley, Robert J. "Precedents for the Court Plan"

  5. Clarke, John H. "The Naked Question of the Constitutionality of the Court Proposal"

  6. Cummings, Homer S. "Attorney General's Letter"

  7. Cummings, Homer S. "Draft of the Proposed Law"

  8. Cummings, Homer S. "Reasons for President's Plan and the Remedy"

  9. Cushman, Robert E. "The Supreme Court and the Constitution"

  10. Farley, James A. "United We Stand"

  11. Farnum, George R. "Storm Over the Supreme Court"

  12. Glass, Carter. "The Battle Is On"

  13. Guffey, Joseph F. "Politics and Supreme Courts"

  14. Hoover, Herbert. "This Challenge to Liberty"

  15. Hoover, Herbert. "This Is No Lawyers' Dispute Over Legalisms"

  16. Hughes, Charles E. "Chief Justice Hughes' Letter to Senator Wheeler"

  17. La Follette, Robert M. "Backing the President's Court Proposal"

  18. Lamneck, Arthur P. "A Representative Democratic View of the Court Issue"

  19. Landis, James M. "The Power the Court Has Appropriated"

  20. Lewis, William Draper. "Controversial and Non-Controversial Aspects of the Court Proposal"

  21. Moley, Raymond. "The President's Court Proposal"

  22. O'Mahoney, Joseph C. "Arbitrary Power in a Republic Does Not Lie Even in a Majority"

  23. The Nation (February 13, 1937). "Purging the Supreme Court"

  24. The New York Herald-Tribune (February 8, 1937). Editorial

  25. The New Republic (March 17, 1937). "The President Faces the Court"

  26. Roosevelt, Franklin Delano. "Now!"

  27. Roosevelt, Franklin D. "Judicial Branch Reorganization Plan"

  28. Roosevelt, Franklin D. "On the Reorganization of the Judiciary"

  29. U.S. Congress. Senate. "Excerpts from the Senate Debate"

  30. U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary. "Reorganization of the Federal Judiciary, Adverse Report"

  31. Wheeler Burton K. "First Member of the Senate to Back the President in '32-"

  32. Wheeler Burton K. "Appeals to the Prejudices of the People"



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