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Preserve the independence of the Supreme Court from party control — Herbert Hoover, 1932

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Score	Cycle	Candidate	Issue	Position
0.37	1932	Alfred E. Smith	Overall role and scale of the federal government	War on any candidate who makes 'demagogic appeals to the masses' setting class against class
0.36	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
0.36	1932	Albert C. Ritchie	National Prohibition	Repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment as a matter of states' rights
0.34	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Federal responsibility for relief	Federal leadership in distress relief — federal credit to states whose resources are exhausted
0.32	1932	Herbert Hoover	Equal rights and opportunity for Black Americans	Maintain equal opportunity and rights for Negro citizens
0.32	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Overall role and scale of the federal government	"A new deal for the American people" — work and security through liberal, planned government action
0.31	1932	Herbert Hoover	Civil service and patronage	Keep the merit system 'unassailable'
0.31	1932	Herbert Hoover	Public ownership of electric power	Federal regulation of interstate power; opposition to government operation of the power business
0.30	1932	Albert C. Ritchie	Federal responsibility for relief	States' rights and business-led recovery — no federal intervention in relief
0.30	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
0.29	1932	Herbert Hoover	Regulation of securities issuance and exchanges	No federal 'blue sky' law — securities regulation belongs to the states, and the President should not police booms
0.29	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	National Prohibition	Repeal the Eighteenth Amendment by state conventions; legalize beer now; states control liquor and bar the saloon
0.29	1936	Alf Landon	Antitrust and concentration of economic power	Use the full power of the federal government to break up private monopolies and enforce the antitrust laws 'without fear or favor'
0.28	1936	Alf Landon	Regulation of securities issuance and exchanges	Keep federal regulation of securities marketing and interstate utilities, vested in independent tribunals under definite standards subject to court review
0.28	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
0.27	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Unemployment insurance	Unemployment insurance under state laws
0.26	1932	Herbert Hoover	Right to organize and bargain collectively	Collective bargaining by representatives of the employees' own choice, 'without the interference of any one'
0.23	1932	Newton D. Baker	League of Nations and international organizations	Do not make the League of Nations a party issue; no entry until a majority of Americans approve
0.23	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	How to finance old-age and unemployment insurance (contributory reserve vs. pay-as-you-go)	Defense of the payroll-tax financing: the employer pays an equal share and the reserves are safe
0.23	1932	Norman Thomas	Unemployment insurance	Compulsory unemployment insurance funded by employers and by higher income and inheritance taxes
0.23	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Working hours and labor standards	Revive the NRA's principles 'by one device or another' (imputed; the President would not say)
0.22	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Reorganization of the executive branch	A long-range plan consolidating the federal government's scattered public-health and welfare agencies
0.22	1936	William E. Borah	Antitrust and concentration of economic power	Drive monopoly and price fixing out of the system or face governmental regimentation
0.22	1932	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Public works as employment policy	'Employment for all surplus labor at all times' through self-liquidating public works (the Shearon letter, as Hoover read it)
0.21	1936	Franklin D. Roosevelt	Communism, radicalism and "alien isms" as a political issue	Repudiate Communist support; the New Deal is the answer to Communism, not its ally