Law Quote by Philip Hamburger

“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

“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…

— Philip Hamburger

“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

“Executive power thus could be exercised adjacent to legislation without actually trespassing on legislative power. The executive, for example, could make regulations and interpretations…

— Philip Hamburger

“And already here the danger should be evident—that government has returned to the era before constitutions, when kings or executives ruled not through law…

— Philip Hamburger

“Because the common law was not simply the creature of political power-holders, it became another of the forces for separation of powers and of…

— Thomas Sowell

“Gary Lawson observes: “The modern administrative state is not merely unconstitutional; it is anti-constitutional. The Constitution was designed specifically to prevent the emergence of…

— Philip Hamburger

“It may be thought that administrative legislation at least comes with virtual representation. Although the administrative lawmakers themselves are unelected, they are appointed by…

— Philip Hamburger

“The authority of society is imposed not arbitrarily or officially, but naturally. And it is because of this fact that its effect on the…

— Mikhail Bakunin

“Wilson insisted that the centralized administrative state must, by logic and necessity, replace or thoroughly alter the constitutional structure—particularly the Framers’ incorporation of Charles…

— Mark R. Levin

“In a fully developed bureaucracy there is nobody left with whom one can argue, to whom one can present grievances, on whom the pressures…

— Hannah Arendt

The more powerful the class, the more it claims not to exist, and its power is employed above all to enforce this claim. It…

— Guy Debord