Judiciary Reorganization Bill of 1937, or commonly known as the FDR's court-packing plan. This simply is defined as FDR's way to stack the Supreme Court in his favor so that they could pass his New Deal plan. The New Deal plan was intended to boost the downed economy during the Great Depression. Since the Constitution does not limit the size of the Supreme Court FDR found to oppose his political agenda and expand the number of justices or people in the court. Thus putting more people in that were Pro-New Deal this giving the name " Court-Packing Plan "Roosevelt put some 15 new members on the board, and on March 29, 1937, the Supreme Court passed the bill. The sudden movement of jurisprudential shift was called " the switch in time that saved nine. " The passage of the bill was what lead the U.S out of the Great Depression, slowly but in my thoughts it was efficient. The provisions on the bill were as so;-Allowing the President to appoint new judges for each federal judge with 10 years service who did not retire or resign within six months after reaching the age of 70 years;-Limitations upon the number of judges the President could appoint: no more than six Supreme Court justices, and no more than two on any lower federal court, with a maximum allocation between the two of 50 new judges;-that lower-level judges be able to float, roving to district courts with exceptionally busy or backlogged dockets; and-Lower courts be administered by the Supreme Court through newly created "proctors" 
I think without this bill the U.S. would have been in the Great Depression. The passage of this bill was the right choice and pulled us out of the recession.Sources: -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Court_packing-http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1591.html
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