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It had been the president's hope that the Supreme Court justices would allow him some discretion in producing the various plans for social and economic reorganization that had become collectively known as the New Deal. Some of the earlier enactments that had emerged from Congress and been signed into law had been rushed through the process under emergency conditions. But the Court's majority was immune to such pressure. Beginning in early 1935 it issued a series of decisions that eliminated much of the New Deal's early legislative program and placed other portions of it in legal limbo. Among its more consequential decisions were the "gold clause cases" (Perry v. U.S., Nortz v. U. S., and Norman v. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad) in February, in which the Court, while upholding a congressional resolution voiding clauses in private contracts requiring payment in gold, questioned whether the...
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