What did critics charge against roosevelt’s attempt to "pack the court"?

he was going to put every new deal law in jeopardy.

he was violating the judiciary act of 1789.

he was blurring the separation of powers required in a democratic republic.

he was trying to shift the balance of power defined in the u. s. constitution.

The correct answer is "He was going to put every New Deal law in jeopardy."

The Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937, also known as "court-packing plan" was a legal initiative from President Franklin D. Roosevelt to appoint an additional Justice to the US Supreme Court for every member of the court who exceeded the age of 70 years and 6 months. The limit would be 6 additional justices.

This was seen as a clear attempt from President Roosevelt to obtain favorable rulings regarding his "New Deal" reforms which had previously been rejected by the Supreme Court.

The critics believed Roosevelt’s was trying to shift the balance of power defined in the US Constitution

In 1937, the US president Roosevelt communicates his intention to add more judges to the Supreme Court. The bill as proposed by Roosevelt was meant to increase the membership of the Supreme Court to almost 15 judges.

The motive behind the proposed expansion was meant to appoint more judges who will support the new deal legislation. Therefore, the bill was widely criticized and it was never considered by congress.  

The critics believed Roosevelt was trying to shift the balance of power as enshrined in the US constitution. They believed the president should not mediate in the affairs of the Supreme Court. Most of the critics were also of the opinion that the Supreme Court must evaluate laws proposed by the president and congress and can determine which laws are suitable or unsuitable to the constitution of the United States.

President Roosevelt's attempts to increase the justices of the US Supreme court were not successful because he didn’t brief the congressional leaders before the announcement of the bill. As a result, the bill was however not endorsed by the house judiciary committee chairman at the time.

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"a problem throughout latin america is widespread poverty. what can those countries improve? the higher the literacy rate" or "education, the lower the rate of poverty".

although the majority of the total population and the population   poor in latin america and the caribbean is in the centers   urban areas, in relative terms poverty remains a   rural phenomenon in the region. the incidence of poverty and   extreme poverty is much greater in rural areas than   in urban areas without going further, in 1997 more than half of the   rural households lived in poverty and about a third in   situation of extreme poverty. in addition, the difficult economic situation   of most of the countries in the region in the past   two years has surely deteriorated those figures. to the poor   of the rural areas of the region are raised at least   three basic problems: i); insufficient nutrition, poor health and   poor educational services; ii); scarce opportunities   productive employment in agriculture and non-agricultural activities;   and iii); low degree of organization to effectively promote   the rural interests. the number and variety of circumstances   that cause rural poverty, as well as heterogeneity   of conditions in which it occurs in different countries   and regions hinder the search for effective solutions and   efficient to raise the welfare of the rural population.  

the mechanisms to reduce poverty are   focuses on three types of important action possibilities and   complementary to generate or raise the income of the poor   of rural areas: one that is based on the growth of   agricultural sector; another that aims at sustainable use and conservation   of natural resources, and the last based on the importance   growing rural economic activities that   they develop outside the agricultural land. there are at least other   two possibilities for reducing rural poverty: the traditional migration to urban areas and assistance to   people who need income transfers to overcome   the poverty threshold or to have a minimum access to   social safety nets.