Posted on 02/23/2017 5:58:13 PM PST by ForYourChildren
For those who hold the Constitution of the United States in high regard and who are concerned about the fate of its principles in our contemporary practice of government, the modern state ought to receive significant attention. The reason for this is that the ideas that gave rise to what is today called "the administrative state" are fundamentally at odds with those that gave rise to our Constitution. In fact, the original Progressive-Era architects of the administrative state understood this quite clearly, as they made advocacy of this new approach to government an important part of their direct, open, comprehensive attack on the American Constitution.
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(Excerpt) Read more at heritage.org ...
I know this is dated, but it is a great intro into the Administrative State and the dangers to freedom.
This is what Bannon is referring to today. That which he and Trump wants to deconstruct, the Administrative State.
And that which the the Opposition Party (msm, GOPe, demoncrats, etc.) hold very dear and desire to expand forever - unconstitutional power in the form of non-debated regulations through alphabet soup agencies.
Here is another really good resource.
“The Administrative State and the Common Law: Regulatory Substitutes or Complements?”
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The modern administrative state looms larger than ever, and grows at an everaccelerating pace. Federal agencies have proliferated in virtually every significant regulatory domain. U.S. government spending on federal regulatory activity in 2014 is estimated to have been $49.8 billion. Federal agencies now employ approximately 284,000 people, and the Code of Federal Regulations now weighs in at over 175,000 pages. Not everyone is pleased with these developments.
Four such individuals—Chief Justice Roberts, Justices Thomas, Alito, and the late Justice Scalia—have expressed their displeasure, indeed their alarm, with consistency, clarity, and vigor. They warn that the rise of administrative agencies, and the attendant ascendance of doctrines of mandatory judicial deference to agency interpretations of federal law, signals no less than the end of our government’s separation-of-powers structure, and our right to live our lives without fear of bureaucratic encroachment at every turn. Their opinions and dissents sounding this theme reverberate with seemingly unprecedented urgency in the face of a neverbeforeencountered threat.
Bingo!
Administrative advocacy is mature statism....
The administrative state can end only when people realize that the government cannot give them something for nothing. Sometimes things have to get really bad, as in Venezuela, before the populace will rise up against it.
neverbeforeencountered....
That was a line in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang right?
Charles Murray also discussed this in his book “By the People”.
Constitution bump for later.....
Unelected bureaucrats run some sort of exorbitant percentage of the entire government.
Bookmark.
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