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Question: Why didn't this extreme power shift to unaccountable bureaucrats begin in the 18th century? Why did Congress wait until the 20th century to assign much of its law making duties to executive agencies?
3 posted on 05/26/2013 3:18:52 AM PDT by Jacquerie (To restore the 10th Amendment, repeal the 17th.)
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"Why did Congress wait until the 20th century to assign much of its law making duties to executive agencies? "

They were waiting on the chosen one ZERO

7 posted on 05/26/2013 3:25:55 AM PDT by DeaconRed (If you cheat and win (Like ZERO) you haven't won. . . . You cheated.. .)
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“...Why didn’t this extreme power shift to unaccountable bureaucrats begin in the 18th century?...”
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I think we both know why.


17 posted on 05/26/2013 4:14:57 AM PDT by Repeal The 17th (We have met the enemy and he is us.)
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Why did Congress wait until the 20th century to assign much of its law making duties to executive agencies? 

Oohh... Oohh... Pick me! Pick me!

-PJ

20 posted on 05/26/2013 4:39:37 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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A great deal changed in America, especially around 1913.


66 posted on 05/26/2013 6:43:21 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (Cogito, ergo armatum sum.)
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