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Re:They Thought They Were Free, by Milton Mayer, an Excerpt by randallsquared on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @05:48AM (#42946712)
He’d have a long way to go to get down to the number of federal agencies that existed in 1900, let alone the number in 1800, yet the US had its constitution, then, too.
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Re:They Thought They Were Free, by Milton Mayer, an Excerpt by tmvphil on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @07:04AM (#42947344)
Since 1800 congress has used its constitutional power to establish agencies. It is congress who has the constitutional power to shut them down, not the president. The president executes the laws passed by Congress.
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