But since the rise of the modern movement for social and economic progress through legislation, the Court has more and more often and more and more boldly asserted a power to veto laws passed by the Congress and state legislatures in complete disregard of this original limitation.
Roosevelt critiques the Supreme Court's increasing tendency to veto legislation, which he sees as a departure from its original limitations.
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