| Show Supreme Prospects Good for Harassed Institution The Supreme Court has in recent years been under constant attack from right-wing Being under a condition of stress is certainly no for the Court has been subjected to attack many times during the course of its turbulent hi spite of the there is little doubt that the as an will emerge from its most recent period of duress relatively This optimistic attitude towards the outcome results from the following basic American most y Americans regard the Supreme Court with very high almost with the Court plays a major role in the dualistic American attitude toward the Court has survived so many past it is only logical to assume that it will survive the current American opinion is against a change in the traditional composition and structure of the The Supreme Court has been held in such high esteem by so many Americans for such a long period of time that it has come to serve as a kind of political in Daniel J. Boorstin's as a kind of The American political tradition has developed along the dualistic lines of both popular and fundamental The executive and legislative branches have filled the positions created by the desire for a popular government and the almost by have fulfilled the common law tradition of promoting fundamental Although the fundamental conflict between the two philosophies has often resulted great the American public has not lost faith in either Putting the current assault upon the Court into its proper historical it is not likely that an institution which has survived the Jeffersonian the slavery and the New Deal Court is likely to expire in the face of this latter-day Although many Americans may be in violent disagreement with specific Supreme Court the majority still feel that the Court should be let or rather that it should be subject to influence only in the accepted namely by use of the appointing power when vacancies No clearer support of this statement could be cited than President Franklin D. Roosevelt's attempted of the Supreme Roosevelt and his policies won an overwhelming vote of approval in the 1936 but the majority of Americans still rallied to the side of the Supreme which had torn the heart out of much of the President's when Roosevelt resorted to his Court i i |
