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FDR and the Supreme Court
March 10, 1937
Your chat last night had the dangerous ring of a speech of a demagogue. You are leading the poor, ignorant people into errors worse than those which we are trying to escape.
Why haven't you the intellectual honesty to remind us that the only constitutional amendment initiated by your regime was ratified within a year? Your own former colleague, Professor Moley, says he begged you to ask for amendments that would give you the powers you seek fully two years ago, but that you said an election was coming. Does he mean that you were too yellow to openly ask for what you wanted?
Instead you admit now that you seek amendments by amending the court itself in a characteristic effort to gain an end by indirection.
I always have been a Democrat but frankly I oppose you with all my energy because you have broken so many promises and thus have proven you are not to be trusted.
May the people somehow have the good sense to deliver the government to your successors safe from your mad tampering.
An angered constituent.
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