The excerpt below is from the majority opinion in a 1937 Supreme Court case.

The hope behind this statute is to save men
and women from the rigors of the poor house
as well as from the haunting fear that such a
lot awaits them when journey’s end is near.

—Helvering v. Davis

Public Domain/U. S. Social Security Administration

Which piece of New Deal legislation did this ruling uphold?

Why were presidents andrew jackson and martin van buren unwilling to annex texas? a. they did not want texas to be admitted to the union as a slave state. b. they feared that the annexation of texas as a slave state would lead to political problems within the union. c. they thought that texas was too large to be admitted to the union as one state. d. they did not believe in the idea of manifest destiny.