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The US Constitution invested Congress with the power to write legislation. Congress chose to write legislation that created specific agencies, gave them broad p
by matthewdgreen 3y ago
The US Constitution invested Congress with the power to write legislation. Congress chose to write legislation that created specific agencies, gave them broad power, and then outsourced fine-grained decision-making power to those agencies. At literally any point Congress wants, it can can revoke that power or adjust it.
Congress generally doesn't do this because it simply doesn't have the bandwidth, and so core government functions would become unscalable. But you can certainly vote for representatives who support this idea, and we could see how the results come out.
- WarOnPrivacy 3y ago> The US Constitution invested Congress with the power to write legislation. Then why are lobbyists writing so much of it?
- dragonwriter 3y ago> The US Constitution invested Congress with the power to write legislation. More precisely, the power to pass federal legislation. Anyone can write legislation (I've done it, its fun! [0]), and the Constitution also protects doing this and trying to get it passed [1], but if you can't convince the legislative body with the power to pass it to do so, it has no legal effect. [0] A couple times as a "what would it look like if we wanted to pursue this" in an state legislative office, other times as part of an extended government-simulation project as part of college coursework. [1] This is part of the First Amendment right to petition.