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To: EternalVigilance

There’s a debate about whether Congress can delegate authority to a bureaucracy, as it has done here. Congress has the right to yank that authority away or banish the bureaucracy.


50 posted on 06/07/2011 10:36:10 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Hawk)
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To: HiTech RedNeck; EternalVigilance

Not much of a debate. We have three distinct branches of government so as to limit the power of any one branch. Our Constitution is explicit:

Executive - executes laws
Legislative - makes laws (they were also intended to be the most powerful branch yet slow and lumbering so as to protect liberty)
Judical - decides if laws are Constitutional or not

The executive has no authority to make laws.
The legislative cannot delegate its authority to the Executive.


91 posted on 06/07/2011 11:03:41 AM PDT by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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