From an earlier vanity of mine:
An interesting and prescient quotation in this regard comes from John Lockes Second Treatise of Government §141, 1689:
The power of the Legislative being derived from the People by a positive voluntary Grant and Institution, can be no other, than what that positive Grant conveyed, which being only to make Laws, and not to make Legislators, the Legislative can have no power to transfer their Authority of making Laws, and place it in other hands.
Cheers!
Good stuff. Unfortunately, the EPA heeds neither Locke nor the Constitution. Legal action might be possible, but Anthony Kennedy and 4 other mindless SCOTUS judges ruled in that CO2 is a pollutant that the EPA can regulate.