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Roosevelt believed that he would have to become more radical for the New Deal to work successfully. So both before and after the election victory of 1936 he introduced a series of more robust measures: the Second New Deal. This aroused much opposition - in the usual quarters, but also from the guardians of the Constitution.
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FDR now believed that he would have to introduce much more radical reforms in order to bring the figure down
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The name of the body was carefully chosen. Who, after all, could be opposed to "liberty"?
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A shorter title was more appropriate than the unwieldy official one
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FDR swept the board in the elections, winning 523 Electoral College votes to 8
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FDR usually gave way, and re-phrased the terms of the intended act to suit the Court
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Long argued that the New Deal was far too moderate
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Long made little progress with this. He was - in any event - assassinated in 1935
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Coughlin was also anti-Semitic, which reduced his support in financial circles and elsewhere
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Schechter objected to what they regarded as Federal interference in traditional practices
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This scare-mongering did have some effect in gathering support for business interests against the New Deal
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