...that there is little fault to be found with the Constitution of the United States as it stands today. The vital need is not an alteration of our fundamental...increasingly enlightened view with reference to it. Difficulties have grown out of its interpretation but rightly considered, it can be used as an instrument...

...appeared to warn the Court that he would not continue to tolerate its invalidation of key legislation. "The vital need is not an alteration of our fundamental...increasingly enlightened view with reference to it," Roosevelt declared, averring that "[m]eans must be found to adapt our legal forms and our judicial...

...better than that offered by the Court. The president's own constitutional studies had convinced him that the "vital need is not an alteration of our fundamental...increasingly enlightened view with reference to it." The text should be given a "liberal interpretation" so as to be an Kevin J. McMahon, Reconsidering...

...legislation. But in words that suggested he was hoping for quiet accommodation from the Court, he continued: "The vital need is not an alteration of our fundamental...increasingly enlightened view with reference to it." In his annual budget message the next day, Roosevelt reached out to business. With recovery seemingly...