Title: The Administrative State Is Under Assault And That's A Good Thing
Headings: The Administrative State Is Under Assault And That's A Good Thing
The Administrative State Is Under Assault And That's A Good Thing
Content: Wilson elaborated, “The Constitution was founded on the law of gravitation. The government was to exist and move by virtue of the efficacy of ‘checks and balances.’ The trouble with the theory is that government is not a machine, but a living thing. It falls, not under the theory of the universe, but under the theory of organic life. It is accountable to Darwin, not to Newton. It is modified by its environment, necessitated by its tasks, shaped to its functions by the sheer pressure of life.” By Franklin Roosevelt’s presidency, the Federal Register, a compendium of federal rules, was created and the administrative state was off to the races. Since 1960, the federal rule book proscribing American activities large and small has grown from 22,000 pages to 185,000 pages —ObamaCare regulations alone consume about 10,000 pages of that total. As the United States was created, there were some half-dozen federal laws such as treason and counterfeiting that could send you to prison. Now, violate any one of the estimated 300,000 rules—even if you’re completely unaware of the rule—and you may be sent to the federal slammer in what is referred to as “ overcriminalization .”