Title: Administrative Agencies: Their Structure and Powers | Business and the Legal Environment
Headings: Administrative Agencies: Their Structure and Powers
Administrative Agencies: Their Structure and Powers
Learning Objectives
Why Have Administrative Agencies?
Why Regulate the Economy at All?
Ideal Conditions for a Free Market
History of Federal Agencies
Classification of Agencies
Powers of Agencies
The Constitution and Agencies
Key Takeaway
Exercises

Content: A similar growth has occurred at the state level. Most states now have dozens of regulatory agencies, many of them overlapping in function with the federal bodies. Classification of Agencies
Independent agencies are different from federal executive departments and other executive agencies by their structural and functional characteristics. Most executive departments have a single director, administrator, or secretary appointed by the president of the United States. Independent agencies almost always have a commission or board consisting of five to seven members who share power over the agency. The president appoints the commissioners or board subject to Senate confirmation, but they often serve with staggered terms and often for longer terms than a usual four-year presidential term. They cannot be removed except for “good cause.” This means that most presidents will not get to appoint all the commissioners of a given independent agency. Most independent agencies have a statutory requirement of bipartisan membership on