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President Franklin Roosevelt had issues with the Supreme Court when it found some of his programs unconstitutional. In an attempt to get his way, he tried to stack the high court with more justices who would side with him. Starting with your understanding of the balance of power in America's government, explain in a paragraph of at least 125 words why this was a bad move on the part of Roosevelt.

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Answer:  the first election returns reached his family estate in Hyde Park, New York, on a November night in 1936, Franklin Delano Roosevelt leaned back in his wheelchair, his signature cigarette holder at a cocky angle, blew a smoke ring and cried “Wow!” His huge margin in New Haven signaled that he was being swept into a second term in the White House with the largest popular vote in history at the time and the best showing in the electoral college since James Monroe ran unopposed in 1820.

The outpouring of millions of ballots for the Democratic ticket reflected the enormous admiration for what FDR had achieved in less than four years. He had been inaugurated in March 1933 during perilous times—one-third of the workforce jobless, industry all but paralyzed, farmers desperate, most of the banks shut down—and in his first 100 days he had put through a series of measures that lifted the nation’s spirits. In 1933 workers and businessmen marched in spectacular parades to demonstrate their support for the National Recovery Administration (NRA), Roosevelt’s agency for industrial mobilization, symbolized by its emblem, the blue eagle. Farmers were grateful for government subsidies dispensed by the newly created Agricultural Adjustment Administration

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The Constitution ensures that there is a separation of powers between the three branches of government. Congress makes laws. The Executive branch implements the bills passed by Congress.

The Judiciary is in charge of interpreting the laws and their implementation. This system ensures that one person does not make laws, implement them, and at the same time interpret if their constitutionality. This separation of powers is the basis of a democratic government.

President Franklin Roosevelt defeated President Hoover during the Great Depression in 1933. He wanted to use the New Deal programs to ensure economic recovery. However, some of the programs were not allowed. The Supreme Court declared them unconstitutional because they were attempts to expand the powers of the executive president.

Based on such rulings, when President Roosevelt won re-election, he tried to reform the Judiciary by proposing to Congress to pass a bill, allowing him to appoint more justices than the Constitution allowed.

President Franklin Roosevelt's court-packing plan alienated public support for his New Deal. Congress rejected the court-packing plan and did not pass the bill that would give the president the power to appoint more justices than constitutionally allowed.

Thus, the plan portrayed Roosevelt as a president that wanted to exceed the powers of the Executive branch of government by ending the separation of powers. It seriously weakened public support for some of his reform programs.

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