The Administrative Threat
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Publisher Description
Government agencies regulate Americans in the full range of their lives, including their political participation, their economic endeavors, and their personal conduct. Administrative power has thus become pervasively intrusive. But is this power constitutional?
A similar sort of power was once used by English kings, and this book shows that the similarity is not a coincidence. In fact, administrative power revives absolutism. On this foundation, the book explains how administrative power denies Americans their basic constitutional freedoms, such as jury rights and due process. No other feature of American government violates as many constitutional provisions or is more profoundly threatening. As a result, administrative power is the key civil liberties issue of our era.
Customer Reviews
Compelling assessment, but too brief
Hamburger provides a thoughtful assessment of how extra-legal administrative rules and procedures have subjegated our individual and collective rights under the Constitution. However, in striving to keep his treatise concise, his examples are too few and too brief. This also goes for his final recommendations which encompasses a mere few paragraphs. An instance where brevity is not to the better. More please!
Administrative law
Cannot turn the pages