Download or read book Franklin Roosevelt and the Great Constitutional War written by Marian Cecilia McKenna and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 654 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This important book is a detailed reinterpretation of one of the most explosive events in modern American politics - Franklin Roosevelt's controversial attempt in 1937 to "pack" the Supreme Court by adding justices who supported his New Deal policies. McKenna traces in unprecedented detail theorigins of FDR's plan, its secret history, and the President's final failure. Drawing on a remarkable range of sources McKenna provides the definitive account of a turning point in American political and legal history.