Thank you for referencing that article 1rudeboy. Please bear in mind that the following critique is directed aganst the artice and not at you.
What’s harming America is actually the following. Parents are not making sure that their children are being taught the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers. Otherwise, even grade school children might be able to point out the following major constitutional problems with the EPA.
To begin with, the Founding States had made the first numbered clauses of the Constitution, Sections 1-3 of Article I, evidently a good place to hide them from the legislative and executive branches, to clarify that all federal legislative powers are vested in the elected members of Congress. So Congress has a constitutional monopoly on federal legislative powers whether it wants it or not. And by delegating legislative / regulatory powers to non-elected bureaucrats, Congress is wrongly protecteding federal legislative powers from the wrath of the voters in blatant defiance of the clauses referenced above.
Did I say federal legislative powers?
Note that even if Congress did have a constitutional option to delegate legislative powers to non-elected government bureaucrats, it remains that the states have never delegated to Congress, via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate environmental issues. So Congress has not only unconstitutionally delegated legislative powers to non-elected bureaucrats, those running the EPA in this example, but Congress is delegating legislative powers that it does not have.
What a mess! :^(
I believe that it’s a flaw in the Constitution: on paper (in my opinion), Congress does have the authority to delegate that power. But it is supposed to oversee it, and it doesn’t. Committee hearings are boring.