The year is 1787 you are a senator of the United States of America you were called into a meeting to set up our country’s new political system because the old one wasn't working. After four months of discussing, arguing and voting. You and all the other leaders of this new country have finally agreed on a system that has three branches of government. The three branches of government that you all have agreed on are the Legislative, Executive and judicial branches . Each branch was given enough power so they can keep the other two in check which is the reason it was called checks and balances. This was the best system that would keep one person from getting too much power. Over the years this system has for the most remained the same but the
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This new bill would save Roosevelt's new deal but weekend the judicial branch's independence because, it would add a new justice for every one that was over the age of 70 and a half. Which is a power that the Executive branch has the power to do and the number of supreme justices can be changed because in article three of the constitution it never sets a number of justices. Roosevelt told the public that it would help with the supreme court's overload of cases but the majority of citizens saw it for what it was, a way for Roosevelt to take control over the judicial branch and save the new deal from being broken apart. Many people even supporters of Roosevelt thought this bill was wrong and would lead to the destruction of the three branches. The court packing bill was an obvious move by Roosevelt to give himself more control of the judicial branch and was never discussed by the …show more content…
There has been many changes in the number of set justices so changing it was not the problem that people had with the judicial reform plan proposed by roosevelt. If that same plan was proposed by an earlier president who wasn't constantly getting checked by the supreme court it could have passed, but because it was known that Roosevelt had a disliking for the beliefs the majority of the justices had and some of his acts that were apart of the new deal were getting checked the public knew this was a way for Roosevelt to grab more power and ruin the system set up by the
This new bill would save Roosevelt's new deal but weekend the judicial branch's independence because, it would add a new justice for every one that was over the age of 70 and a half. Which is a power that the Executive branch has the power to do and the number of supreme justices can be changed because in article three of the constitution it never sets a number of justices. Roosevelt told the public that it would help with the supreme court's overload of cases but the majority of citizens saw it for what it was, a way for Roosevelt to take control over the judicial branch and save the new deal from being broken apart. Many people even supporters of Roosevelt thought this bill was wrong and would lead to the destruction of the three branches. The court packing bill was an obvious move by Roosevelt to give himself more control of the judicial branch and was never discussed by the …show more content…
There has been many changes in the number of set justices so changing it was not the problem that people had with the judicial reform plan proposed by roosevelt. If that same plan was proposed by an earlier president who wasn't constantly getting checked by the supreme court it could have passed, but because it was known that Roosevelt had a disliking for the beliefs the majority of the justices had and some of his acts that were apart of the new deal were getting checked the public knew this was a way for Roosevelt to grab more power and ruin the system set up by the