How the Supreme Court Rewrote the Constitution Part VI: Crushing Civil Liberties
The first, second, third, fourth and fifth installments in this series traced how the Supreme Court responded to President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s efforts to break constitutional limits and create a powerful federal government. After trying to balance the demands of...
How the Supreme Court Rewrote the Constitution Part V: Killing Economic Freedom
The first, second, third, and fourth installments in this series described how the Constitution established a relatively small federal government with limited powers and how President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal challenged that plan. Initially, the Supreme...
How the Supreme Court Rewrote the Constitution Part IV: A packed court and a federal land grab
The first, second, and third installments in this series explained that the Constitution created a small and frugal federal government. Those installments discussed how President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal tested constitutional limits in the 1930s, how the...