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Congress opposed president franklin

d. roosevelt's plan to increase the number of justices on the supreme court because the plan would have

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The correct answer is threatened the principle of checks and balances

Basically, he couldn't get the supreme court to support him so he wanted to add judges that supported him to the supreme court so he could pass his ideas. This would hurt checks and balances because it would seem as if the president was also controlling the supreme court.
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