<em><u>purpose was</u></em>
His dissatisfaction over Supreme Court decisions holding New Deal programs unconstitutional prompted him to seek out methods to change the way the court functioned.
B. the result is a prime number.
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C. Allowing newly added territories to the United States decide for themselves the slavery issue.</span>
Popular sovereignty was proposed as a way to decide the issue of slavery in the new territories. Under such a system, the local population would decide the slavery issue rather than Congress.