“Some specialized types of administrative legislation require further attention—for example, determinations that make law. These determinations echo the old determinations of facts, in which an executive officer determined a factual question that was a condition of a statute’s application. Rather… — Philip Hamburger Copy Share Image
“On behalf of the deference under the Administrative Procedure Act, it is said that Congress is not constitutionally barred from authorizing deference—as if Congress can detract from the office of the judges. The office of the judges, however, was an element of the Constitution’s grant of judicial power, and it required the judges to exercise independent judgment in accord with… — Philip Hamburger Copy Share
“By the same token, the executive cannot exercise legislative power, even if it has legislative authorization, for when it acts alone, it is a sort of Rump—certainly as much a Rump as the House of Commons once was. Although it would be bad enough for the two houses of Congress to exercise legislative power alone, it is worse for the… — Philip Hamburger Copy Share
“Indeed, they embraced a tradition that was notorious for its incompatibility with American law and liberty. The connection between absolute and administrative power was not a secret. In the most prominent book on constitutional law of the late nineteenth century, Dicey began by observing that “the views of the prerogative maintained by Crown lawyers under the Tudors and the Stuarts… — Philip Hamburger Copy Share
“Indeed, during the ensuring centuries, Englishmen repeatedly protested that a king could “not break or dispense with the positive laws,” and they asked, “What… — Philip Hamburger Copy Share Image
“In sum, part I has shown that administrative law revives prerogative legislation, together with the prerogative of suspending and dispensing with law—thus restoring an extralegal regime of making and unmaking law. And lest it be thought that this is improbable, it should be recalled that some leading advocates of administrative law candidly admitted that their project was to return to… — Philip Hamburger Copy Share
“Administrative law thereby has transformed American government and society. Although this mode of power is unrecognized by the Constitution, it has become the government’s… — Philip Hamburger Copy Share Image
“The danger of an administrative return to an extralegal regime becomes particularly concrete when one recognizes the potential for evasion. Administrative law evades not… — Philip Hamburger Copy Share Image
“The people could still have their republic, but much legislative power would be shifted out of an elected body and into the hands of… — Philip Hamburger Copy Share Image
“It therefore is necessary to consider the possibility that administrative law was an instrument of a class that took a dim view of popularly… — Philip Hamburger Copy Share Image
“In general, the natural dividing line between legislative and nonlegislative power was between rules that bound subjects and those that did not. Legal obligation… — Philip Hamburger Copy Share Image
“This breadth of constitutional law in barring extralegal legislation is revealing about more than the past. The reader will have to wait patiently until… — Philip Hamburger Copy Share Image
“Following in this tradition, Americans constitutions almost uniformly authorized American governments to act against their subjects only through and under law. As put by… — Philip Hamburger Copy Share Image
