FOURTEEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Thursday, May 1. 1992
FDR's Counter-Blow iTheGrange
Against High Court
Once Rocked Nation
By LYLE C. WILSON
Washington (UP.) The last
previous time federal courts
threw a bone - shaking block
against a United States president,
the man in the White House
countered with a blow that
shook the nation.
The man was FDR. The block
was midway in his first term.
The counter blow was the so
called court packing bill a
project by which Mr. Roosevelt
asked Congress to let him ap
point additional Supreme Court
justices.
Disput Rocks Country
The dispute which greeted
that proposition rocked the coun
try. It split the Democratic Party
wide open. In 1935, the Supreme
Court began junking FDR's New
Deal legislation on grounds it
was unconstitutional. The Na
tional Industrial Recovery Act,
Railroad Retirement Act, Guffey
coal bill, the Agricultural Ad
justment Act were among the
dead pigeons.
Safely elected in 19.16, FDR
countered on Feb. 5, 1937 with
his plan to reform the Supreme
Court. Six months later he lost
that battle when the Senate
scuttled the bill In angry protest.
But Mr. Roosevelt won the
war. Death and resignations
openend Supreme Court vacan
cies and enabled him to put his
own men on the bench. These
men agreed in general with
FDR's theory of a "flexible" Con
stitution, one which would
stretch and bend under an ag
gressive president's emergency
pressure.
FDR based his belief in flexi
bility on the related theory of
"inherent powers" within the
Constitution which gave the
president or Congress extraor
dinary authority to take extra
ordinary emergency action. FDR
did not invent the idea of a flexi
ble Constitution containing non
flexible but inherent executive
powers.
Theodore Roosevelt, for one,
had the idea ahead of him. But
none ever had it more firmly in
mind than Mr. Roosevelt barring,
perhaps President Truman.
FDR stated his Flexible Con
stitution idea in his inaugural
address, March 4, 1933, and oft
en thereafter, even when the old
Supreme Court struck it down.
The new Supreme Court raised
it up again for him. Now, 15
years afler that great 1937 con
stitutional debate on court re
form, a federal court has struck
Roxy Ann Granga
Roxy Ann Grange will hold
its regular meeting Friday, May
2. All Grange ladies who have
their aprons made are to bring
them for display.
The mothers are to be honored
at this meeting as the men are
to do the entertaining and serve
refreshments.
Grangers are reminded that
there is to be a square dance
Saturday, May 3.
Eagla Point Granga
The third and fourth 'degree
team of Eagle Point Grange will
go to Central Point on May 2 to
put on the degree work for can
dadates being initiated there.
There will be a square dance
at Eagle Point Grange hall Sat
urday, May 3, at 8:30 p.m. Gary
Conrad of Medford will be the
caller featured. Ladies are to
bring sandwiches.
At the regular Grange meet
ing Tuesday, May 8, at 8 p.m.,
candidates for county offices
will be introduced at an open
lecturer's hour. Public is invited
to meet these men at this time.
down once more the New Deal
Fair Deal theory of a flexible
Constitution with basic inherent
emergency powers. Did Mr. Tru
man have "inherent" power to
seize the steel companies?
This time the Supreme Court
must pass on a question which
more than any before it pin
points the great and still un
decided constitutional debate.
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