Critics charged that President Franklin D. Roosevelt's plan to increase the number of Supreme Court Justices was in conflict withthe Supreme Court's practice of judicial restraint the constitutional principle of checks and balances attempts of Congress to limit judicial responsibilities efforts to restrict the number of terms a President could serveA major complaint of western farmers in the late 19th century concerned the increase in the number of immigrant settlers restrictive land policies of the United States heavy military expenditures of the Federal Government power of banks and railroads over the farm economy
1) The consitutional principle of checks and balances (FDR wanted to stack the court with justices that he knew would support his New Deal plan.) 2) Power of banks and railroads over the farm econmy (Banks were charging enormous rates on their loans and railroads were able to control supply/demand)
