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Why do unelected bureaucrats get to exercise power? What are the limits on those powers? What recourse do citizens have if bureaucrats abuse those powers? Anyone working with government needs to know the answers to these questions. Administrative Law: The Sources and Limits of Government Agency Power concisely examines the everyday challenges of administrative responsibilities and provides students with a way to understand and manage the complicated mission that is governance. Written by leading scholar Daniel Feldman, the book avoids technical legal language, but at the same time provides solid coverage of legal principles and exemplar studies, which allows students to gain a clear understanding of a complicated and critical aspect of governance.
Non-Delegation Doctrine: “Agencies Cannot Make Laws” (Ostensibly)
Non-Delegation Doctrine: “Agencies Cannot Make Laws” (Ostensibly)
Why Study Administrative Law?
Citizens and students who want to understand American government tend to look first to courses on constitutional law or to Congress. But agencies execute most of the governing. So, in order to understand most of our government, look at administrative law, the law that sets forth the logic of agency power: the sources of that power, and the limits of that power.
Many readers of this book will spend a good part of their professional lives working in government agencies. If you are among that group, you will find that administrative law explains many of the procedures you follow and creates the framework of law that structures much of ...
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