Do the bureaucrats have the right to make laws by edict?
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Actually they do.
Blame our lazy politician. What they do is write a vague law and then authorize some bureaucrat to define the details of that law.
Not laws but regulations that can be enforced with fines.
“Not laws but regulations that can be enforced with fines”
It’s worse then that. WILLFUL violation of a Federal Regulation is a crime.
So catenate that with a regulation, and voila, you have an actionable offense, so the Regulation is a law in everything but name.
It’s called “delegation” and it should be outlawed. There is no recourse such as the vote to unseat someone who makes an unjust law when it’s written by an unelected employee. That violates the entire idea of self rule.