FDR or Franklin Delano Roosevelt is considered to be among our most important US presidents. He became President during a time of great economic upheaval and distress in the early 1930s. FDR gave the country a "New Deal." The New Deal was the greatest effort by a US President up to that time to expand the federal government to provide a safety net for the average American citizen to lessen the harshness of unexpected economic difficulty and uncertainty. O the way FDR strengthened the principle of state sovereignty and lessened the power of the federal government. O in effect an example of a president abdicating his Art. Il authority to the US Congress. O in effect an example of a president giving his Art. Il powers to the US Supreme Court. followed by a secession of certain Southern states to form the 2nd Confederacy.

FDR or Franklin Delano Roosevelt is considered to be among our most important US presidents. He became President during a time of great economic upheaval and distress in the early 1930s. FDR gave the country a "New Deal." The New Deal was the greatest effort by a US President up to that time to expand the federal government to provide a safety net for the average American citizen to lessen the harshness of unexpected economic difficulty and uncertainty. O the way FDR strengthened the principle of state sovereignty and lessened the power of the federal government. O in effect an example of a president abdicating his Art. Il authority to the US Congress. O in effect an example of a president giving his Art. Il powers to the US Supreme Court. followed by a secession of certain Southern states to form the 2nd Confederacy.