July 27.
The reverse which President Roosevelt has suffered in connection with his design for the reform of the United States Supreme Court} is of the greatest importance to the democracies of the world in that it clearly emphasizes that save in totalitarian states, where: public opinion is moulded under pains and penalties, the people have still great deal to say as to the manner in which their country shall be governed. In passing it might be remarked that the passage of Mr. A. P, Herbert's Marriage Reform Bill in Britain is indicative of precisely the same thing, for in this] instance doctrinal opposition had eventually to give way to the public yealizatlon of the abuses possible under the divorce law as It exists] and the very real hardships which it created. In studying the case of] President Roosevelt, however, a set] of very Interesting circumstances have to be considered, not the least] of which is the economic condition of the United States when he came into power, It is possible at this) Jate date to realize that the situation was even more tragic than then appeared to be the case, and In, order to meet an unprecedented situation strange remedies had to be' found. Mr. Roosevelt and his advisers were adventuring into terra incognita, with very little of old practice to guide them, and a vast field of trial and error to be} explored, Hence the mass of legislation generically: termed the} New Deal was passed by Congress, received Presidential assent -after' which much was declared unconstitutional by the highest tribuna) of the land. The right to pass on the constitutionality of congress ional, or for that matter any other form of legislation in the:
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