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President Roosevelt's attempt to protect his legislative program and to ensure promised changes precipitated the greatest constitutional and political crisis of the decade. Rulings by the lower courts, particularly, placed much of the New Deal's future in serious jeopardy. Like the Supreme Court itself, the federal judiciary resisted the creation of a large bureaucracy and limited the power of Congress and the president. The president's court-packing scheme, by which he hoped to liberalize the Supreme Court, did not receive sufficient support in either the Congress or the electorate. The need for a radical restructuring of the courts, and particularly the Supreme Court, suddenly disappeared when the Supreme Court, adopting a new interpretation of the government's role and power in the economic affairs of the nation, issued a series of decisions favorable to the New Deal program. The crisis had passed.
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