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Arbitrary Power in a Republic Does Not Lie Even in a Majority

Classification: Court Packing
Publication:
Date: May 5, 1937
Author: O'Mahoney, Joseph C.
Type: Speech

The judiciary bill which has now been before Congress for three months has been represented to the people of the country as the keystone of the arch of President Roosevelt's program of social and economic reform.

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Notes: Over NBC red network, May 5, 1937
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