FRQ Practice - Concept Application Question Chief Justice Hughes’ letter was written as Congress considered the “court packing”
Bill.

“Everyone who has worked in a group knows the necessity of limiting size
to obtain efficiency. And this is peculiarly true of a judicial body. It is
too much to say that the Supreme Court could not do its work if two
more members were added, but I think that the consensus of competent
opinion is that it is now large enough . . . There would be more judges to
hear, more judges to confer, more judges to discuss, more judges to be
convinced and to decide.”

—Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, letter to Senate
Judiciary Committee, 1937

After reading the scenario above, respond to A, B, and C below:
(A) Describe the proposed legislation by President Franklin Roosevelt
that prompted the author’s response.
(B) In the context of this scenario, describe how judicial independence
led to the proposed legislation in part A,
(C) Explain how the proposed legislation may have altered U. S. policy.