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Toward A New Deal Legal History, Eben Moglen

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With this article, Barry Cushman continues the project begun in earlier writings, leading ultimately to a thoroughgoing reconsideration of the legal history of the New Deal. The present work, perhaps the most important to appear so far, brings Cushman's evolving argument up against the most stable – if not altogether the most convincing – element of the traditional history of the New Deal Court. The "Constitutional Revolution of 1937" is now open for reconsideration or, more precisely, the famous "switch in time" that realigned the Supreme Court with the demands of the Roosevelt administration. Cushman argues powerfully – by and …