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<p>Conflicts between those supporting and opposing congressional redelegation to executive agencies go back to the earliest days of the Republic, but given the enormous development of the administrative state, now raise issues of great practical importance. The arguments back and forth implicate abstract notions of democracy, efficiency, and judicial power, though typically partisan and other self interested considerations actually drive the debate. The future is likely to see some retrenchment, but not wholesale rejection of redelegation, as the massive and unpredictable consequences would deter courts from acting.</p>
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Conflicts between those supporting and opposing congressional redelegation to executive agencies go back to the earliest days of the Republic, but given the enormous development of the administrative state, now raise issues of great practical importance. The arguments back and forth implicate abstract notions of democracy, efficiency, and judicial power, though typically partisan and other self interested considerations actually drive the debate. The future is likely to see some retrenchment, but not wholesale rejection of redelegation, as the massive and unpredictable consequences would deter courts from acting.

To Delegate or Redelegate: Is That the Question?

British Journal of American Legal Studies

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Conflicts between those supporting and opposing congressional redelegation to executive agencies go back to the earliest days of the Republic, but given the...

To Delegate or Redelegate: Is That the Question?

Publicado en línea: 18 may 2021

Páginas: 335 - 361

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/bjals-2021-0003

Palabras clave
Delegation, Redelegation, Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council

© 2021 Thomas Halper, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

To Delegate or Redelegate: Is That the Question?

Publicado en línea: 18 may 2021

Páginas: 335 - 361

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/bjals-2021-0003

Palabras claveDelegation, Redelegation, Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council

© 2021 Thomas Halper, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Palabras clave
Delegation, Redelegation, Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council