The Administrative Threat

The Administrative Threat
ISBN-10
159403950X
ISBN-13
9781594039508
Category
Political Science
Pages
68
Language
English
Published
2017-05-02
Publisher
Encounter Books
Author
Philip HAMBURGER

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.

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