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> A government of agencies with permanent power, with no checks or balances or any reason to be concerned with what citizens care about
Both of those sentences are lies.
But enjoy your return to the 1800's nepotism and patronage.
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/3595/
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/20/nx-s1-5302537/history-congres...
These two articles were literaly the first page results when you google "independent agencies us history", but you couldn't be bothered, so you choose to bother everyone here.
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> A government of agencies with permanent power, with no checks or balances or any reason to be concerned with what citizens care about
Both of those sentences are lies.
But enjoy your return to the 1800's nepotism and patronage.
https://scholarship.law.bu.edu/faculty_scholarship/3595/
https://www.npr.org/2025/02/20/nx-s1-5302537/history-congres...
These two articles were literaly the first page results when you google "independent agencies us history", but you couldn't be bothered, so you choose to bother everyone here.