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...
How the Supreme Court Rewrote the Constitution Part III: The Court on the Brink
The first installment in this series explained that the Constitution created a small and frugal federal government. This didn’t change materially until the 1930s and 1940s. The second installment profiled the Supreme Court justices serving in the period 1934–1937,...