If such decisions as these two indicated the Court’s permanent attitude, there would be real and grave cause of alarm; for such decisions, if consistently followed up, would upset our whole system of popular Government.
Roosevelt expresses concern that certain Supreme Court decisions could threaten the foundation of popular government.
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