When you start thinking about the power of the administrative branch of government in its many forms; my view is that, assuming you are generally a law-abiding citizen, the various admins out there have as much or more power over your life; certainly “influence”, if not raw power; and you encounter them more than the other branches....
Your local building department; the DMV; the EPA or in CA, the CA Air Resources Bd.
These are bureaucracies that are not going to throw you in jail, but they can make your life sheer hell as you wander around thining you a free man or woman.