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Continue the executive order practically prohibiting immigration except relatives of residents — Herbert Hoover, 1932

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Score	Cycle	Candidate	Issue	Position
0.47	1936	Alf Landon	Independence of the Supreme Court	An independent Supreme Court secure from executive or legislative invasion; maintain the balance between States and nation
0.47	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Restriction of immigration	Continue immigration restriction to protect labor, but end abuses against individual families in enforcement
0.43	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Civil service and patronage	Immediately extend the merit system to all non-policy-making federal positions
0.41	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Control of credit expansion	Prevent another runaway credit expansion through government information, not government control of credit
0.41	1932	Herbert Hoover	Equal rights and opportunity for Black Americans	Maintain equal opportunity and rights for Negro citizens
0.38	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Amending the Constitution to enlarge (or restrain) federal power	Meet constitutional obstacles by 'clarifying amendment' -- and say nothing about the Supreme Court
0.38	1932	Norman Thomas	Independence of the Supreme Court	A Workers' Rights Amendment; curb the Supreme Court's power over Congress; proportional representation; direct election of the President
0.38	1936	Alf Landon	Teachers' loyalty oaths and academic freedom	No loyalty oath for teachers that is not required of all citizens
0.38	1932	Herbert Hoover	National Prohibition	Resubmit the Eighteenth Amendment so each state may decide, with constitutional guarantees against the saloon and against interference with dry states; enforce the law meanwhile
0.37	1932	Herbert Hoover	Independence of the Supreme Court	Preserve the independence of the Supreme Court from party control
0.37	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Working hours and labor standards	Spread employment by substantially reducing hours of labor, starting in government service
0.37	1932	Newton D. Baker	European war debts and reparations	Entry into the World Court and cancellation of the war debts (the record that made him 'politically unpopular')
0.36	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Policy toward Latin America and the Western Hemisphere	The Good Neighbor: no armed intervention, no territorial expansion, reduction of armaments
0.35	1936	Frank Knox	Amending the Constitution to enlarge (or restrain) federal power	New federal activities only when legalized by constitutional amendment -- 'the horse and buggy method'
0.35	1936	Alf Landon	Equal rights and opportunity for Black Americans	Equal opportunity for colored citizens: protect their economic status and personal safety; further their employment
0.35	1936	Alf Landon	How to finance old-age and unemployment insurance (contributory reserve vs. pay-as-you-go)	Repeal the compulsory old-age insurance plan; pay every needy citizen over 65 a pension from a direct, widely distributed tax
0.34	1932	Albert C. Ritchie	National Prohibition	Repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment as a matter of states' rights
0.34	1936	Alf Landon	Federal youth work and education programs (CCC, NYA)	Continue the Civilian Conservation Corps, add education fitting enrollees for private jobs, and take the politicians out of its administration
0.34	1932	Norman Thomas	Equal rights and opportunity for Black Americans	Economic, political and legal equality for the Negro; a federal anti-lynching law; enforce the First Amendment
0.34	1932	Herbert Hoover	Policy toward Latin America and the Western Hemisphere	Withdraw the Marines from Nicaragua after the 1932 election and from Haiti under the Forbes Commission plan; 'no imperialistic ambitions'
0.34	1932	Herbert Hoover	Adherence to the World Court	Join the World Court with reservations; make the Kellogg-Briand Pact an instrument for consultation — but no commitments to use force
0.34	1932	Herbert Hoover	Federal responsibility for relief	Relief through voluntary mobilization and local responsibility, with RFC loans to exhausted states — no federal dole
0.33	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Regulation of securities issuance and exchanges	No implied government approval of foreign bond sales; officials will not try to move stock prices
0.33	1936	Alf Landon	Amending the Constitution to enlarge (or restrain) federal power	Wages, hours and child labor by State law and interstate compact -- and a constitutional amendment giving the States power if the courts forbid
0.33	1932	Herbert Hoover	European war debts and reparations	No cancellation of war debts; apply any annual payment to opening foreign markets for American farm products