Book contents
- The Hughes Court
- The Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States
- Additional material
- Additional material
- The Hughes Court
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Table of Cases
- Introduction
- Part I The Opening Years
- Section A: Setting the Stage
- Section B: The False Dawn
- Section C: Crisis
- Chapter 8 Black Monday, May 27, 1935
- Chapter 9 Winter 1935–36
- Chapter 10 Spring 1936
- Chapter 11 The Court-Packing Plan
- Chapter 12 Resolution
- Chapter 13 Was There a “Switch in Time”?
- Section D: The New Constitutional Regime
- Part II Continuities
- Part III New Approaches Begin to Emerge
- Historiographical Essay
- Index
Chapter 10 - Spring 1936
from Section C: Crisis
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 January 2022
Book contents
- The Hughes Court
- The Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise History of the Supreme Court of the United States
- Additional material
- Additional material
- The Hughes Court
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Table of Cases
- Introduction
- Part I The Opening Years
- Section A: Setting the Stage
- Section B: The False Dawn
- Section C: Crisis
- Chapter 8 Black Monday, May 27, 1935
- Chapter 9 Winter 1935–36
- Chapter 10 Spring 1936
- Chapter 11 The Court-Packing Plan
- Chapter 12 Resolution
- Chapter 13 Was There a “Switch in Time”?
- Section D: The New Constitutional Regime
- Part II Continuities
- Part III New Approaches Begin to Emerge
- Historiographical Essay
- Index
Summary
The Court’s challenge to the New Deal culminated as the 1935-36 Term ended. The chapter describes the Court’s actions striking down the Guffey Bituminous Coal Conservation Act and its decision holding unconstitutional New York’s minimum wage statute. The chapter also describes cases invalidating legislative responses to the Depression that were not in fact genuine New Deal programs, though the tenor of the decisions was taken to show the Court’s general hostility to the Roosevelt administration.
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- The Hughes CourtFrom Progressivism to Pluralism, 1930 to 1941, pp. 223 - 249Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022