Franklin D. Roosevelt was the president of the United States from 1933 to 1945. While he is widely admired for supporting Americans during the Great Depression through the New Deal programs and leading the nation through World War II, he also tried to greatly expand executive power and frequently broke the democratic norm of institutional forbearance. For instance, he tried to weaponize the Supreme Court by expanding it and packing it with loyalists, and he continued running for office after completing the traditional two terms. (He died just after winning a fourth term.) However, Levitsky and Ziblatt point out that democratic norms still prevailed in both cases, because Congress united to deny his court-packing scheme and pass an amendment limiting presidents to two terms. This demonstrates how strong democratic norms can check leaders’ overreach.