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HHistory Learner reacted to Wendell's post in the thread WI: FDR Managed To Expand The Supreme Court? with
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Your initial response to my contribution in this thread was to claim I was being dishonest in my pursuit of accuracy. How you're... -
HHistory Learner reacted to Wendell's post in the thread WI: FDR Managed To Expand The Supreme Court? with Like.
I appreciate the thoughtful, substantive response. Thank you.
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HHistory Learner reacted to Wendell's post in the thread WI: FDR Managed To Expand The Supreme Court? with Like.
I literally did no such thing. The court striking down acts of congress is within its rights, so now you're backpedaling. Existing...
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HHistory Learner reacted to Wendell's post in the thread By 1453 was it inevitable Hungary would go through generations of Ottoman conquest/occupation? with Like.
No. Little is inevitable, but Hungary's fate was as much bad luck as anything else.
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HHistory Learner reacted to Octosteel's post in the thread WI: FDR Managed To Expand The Supreme Court? with Like.
I just had this very humorous image of 1940 turning into mirror 1968 with a southern democratic splinter candidacy, a Republican rerun...
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HHistory Learner reacted to Wendell's post in the thread WI: FDR Managed To Expand The Supreme Court? with Like.
I'm actually glad you brought up Dred Scott, because it collapses your entire argument. Roger Taney's holding reads as excessive but was...
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HHistory Learner reacted to Wendell's post in the thread WI: FDR Managed To Expand The Supreme Court? with Like.
There is literally nothing dishonest about this framing. You're right, there had been previous adjustments to the composition of the...
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HHistory Learner reacted to Callan's post in the thread WI: FDR Managed To Expand The Supreme Court? with Like.
OTL the plan backfired because of opposition within the Democratic Party. A lot of conservatives and political allies who had previously...
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HHistory Learner reacted to Callan's post in the thread WI: FDR Managed To Expand The Supreme Court? with Like.
To answer the question posed by OP, I think a world where the court packing plan goes through is probably a world where a Roosevelt...
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HHistory Learner reacted to Wendell's post in the thread WI: FDR Managed To Expand The Supreme Court? with Like.
When was the last time multiple seats were added to the court at once, and expressly because the court was not bending to the will of...
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HHistory Learner reacted to Octosteel's post in the thread WI: FDR Managed To Expand The Supreme Court? with Like.
The recession isn't the reason the court-packing scheme didn't go through. Neither was it just those dastardly conservatives as the plan...
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HHistory Learner reacted to Wendell's post in the thread WI: FDR Managed To Expand The Supreme Court? with Like.
The consequences will be the death of judicial independence.
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HHistory Learner reacted to Wendell's post in the thread The plausibility/probability problem with scenarios 'saving' Reconstruction through punitive, class-based policies and racial inversion with Like.
West Virginia presents a unique situation, and you'll notice Virginia was reduced, not abolished outright.
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HHistory Learner replied to the thread WI: Less Destructive Mt Lebanon Famine.Maybe the Anglo-French go with the Alexandretta option instead of Gallipoli? Or a neutral Ottomans?
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HHistory Learner replied to the thread The plausibility/probability problem with scenarios 'saving' Reconstruction through punitive, class-based policies and racial inversion.I think historical ignorance plays a large role in it. About concurrent with the Civil War, most Northern States started adopting...