Thursday, June 29, 2023
Commentary: A Deep Dive into the Century of Conservatives’ Failure to Contain the Administrative State
James Landis is widely credited with crafting the theoretical architecture supporting President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s radical reconstruction — and expansion — of the federal government. Landis shrewdly both established and legitimized the regulatory state, including Roosevelt’s creation of new federal administrative agencies, by offering the regulatory state as the solution to the problem of modern governance: the administrative state “is, in essence, our generation’s answer to the inadequacy of the judicial and legislative process.” The Landis premise took concrete shape through Roosevelt’s expansion of the regulatory state, and in doing so, it brought to fruition Woodrow Wilson’s progressive intellectual project: rule by experts, insulated from the popular will.
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The fundamental problem with BOTH worthless political parties is that they BOTH wish to use the violence of the government to achieve THEIR goals, regardless of the consequences. Nobody EVER stands up, lest someone in the future stand up to them following the precedent. BOTH worthless parties need to go.
ReplyDeleteExcellent commentary from The Tennessee Star. Always worth the time to follow the link and read. And I agree with the above comment, both parties are useless at this point.
ReplyDeleteI second that this article is excellent. Though my take away is that we’re all fucked. America is run by the Administrative State. In theory the chief Executive has control over the executive branch, which has become the Administrative State, but Trump’s presidency showed the lie in that.
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The admin state began before Lincoln's war. It really took off after that. That is what Lincoln's war did for the country.
ReplyDeleteI think it was Shelby or maybe McPherson who wrote that prior to the war, the country/govt was referred to as "The Union" and then by the end, it was the the "Federal Govt". Lincoln did what he needed to do to preserve the Union but really gave us the birth of the administrative state.
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