Dimensions of Conflict in the Court-Packing Controversy in America 1936−1937
Dimensions of Conflict in the Court-Packing Controversy in America 1936−1937
Author(s): Bohdan M. SzklarskiSubject(s): Political history, Government/Political systems, Politics and law, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939)
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Papieskiego Jana Pawła II w Krakowie
Keywords: Supreme Court; president; FDR; New Deal; ideology; reform; electoral mandate; leadership; failure;
Summary/Abstract: 1936 brought a lot more than the re-election of president Franklin Delano Roosevelt. It was also a year which brought a broad and radical challenge to the New Deal reform policies. American democracy demonstrated its complexity and unfinishedness. The conflict between FDR and the Supreme Court has many dimensions: institutional – conflict between the government (the president, Congress and the Administration) and the US Supreme Court over the range of powers of each actor; political – regarding the accountability of political elites; socio-economic – regarding the direction of development of American democracy; philosophical – over the meaning of liberty; legal – regarding the separation of powers between the levels of government; personal – between persons and personalities representing divergent visions of power; and historical – reviving the constitutional debates from the early republic.
Journal: Folia Historica Cracoviensia
- Issue Year: 25/2019
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 151-173
- Page Count: 23
- Language: English