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How the Supreme Court Rewrote the Constitution

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How the Supreme Court Rewrote the Constitution
Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1936, after his landslide victory. Keystone Features/Getty Images
Rob Natelson
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The first installment in this series explained that the Constitution created a small and frugal federal government. This didn’t change materially until the 1930s and 1940s.
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Rob Natelson
Rob Natelson
Author
Robert G. Natelson, a former constitutional law professor, is Senior Fellow in Constitutional Jurisprudence at the Mountain States Policy Center and the Independence Institute. He authored “The Original Constitution” (4th ed., 2025) and is a contributor to the Heritage Foundation’s “Heritage Guide to the Constitution.”
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