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Author Hamburger, Philip, 1957- author.

Title Is administrative law unlawful? / Philip Hamburger
Published Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (1 volume)
Contents Introduction -- The debate -- Conceptual framework -- Extralegal legislation -- Proclamations -- Interpretation, regulation, and taxation -- Suspending and dispensing powers -- Lawful executive acts adjacent to legislation -- Return to extralegal legislation -- Extralegal adjudication -- Prerogative courts -- Without judges and juries -- Inquisitorial process -- Prerogative orders and warrants -- Lawful executive acts adjacent to adjudication -- Return to extralegal adjudication -- Rule through the law and courts of law -- Supralegal power and judicial deference -- Deference -- Return to deference -- Consolidated power -- Unspecialized -- Undivided -- Unrepresentative -- Subdelegated -- Unfederal -- Absolute power -- Absolutism -- Necessity -- The German connection -- Obstacles -- Conclusion
Summary Is administrative law unlawful? This provocative question has become all the more significant with the expansion of the modern administrative state. While the federal government traditionally could constrain liberty only through acts of Congress and the courts, the executive branch has increasingly come to control Americans through its own administrative rules and adjudication, thus raising disturbing questions about the effect of this sort of state power on American government and society. With Is Administrative Law Unlawful?, Philip Hamburger answers this question in the affirmative, offering a revisionist account of administrative law. Rather than accepting it as a novel power necessitated by modern society, he shows that it revives a version of medieval and early modern absolute power, including the royal prerogative. Then he traces resistance to administrative law from the Middle Ages to the present. Medieval parliaments periodically tried to confine the Crown to governing through regular law, but the most effective response was the seventeenth-century development of English constitutional law, which concluded that the government could rule through the law of the land and the courts, not through administrative power reemerged in the Progressive and New Deal Eras. Since then, Hamburger argues, administrative law has returned to precisely the sort of absolute power that the US Constitution - and American constitutions in general - were designed to prevent. With a clear yet many-layered argument that draws on history, law, and legal thought, Is Administrative Law Unlawful? reveals administrative law to be not benign, natural outgrowth of contemporary life but a preniciuos - and profoundly unlawful - return to dangerous preconstitutional absolutism. -- from book jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Administrative law -- History
Administrative law -- Philosophy
Administrative law -- United States
LAW -- Constitutional.
LAW -- Public.
Administrative law
Administrative law -- Philosophy
Verwaltungsrecht
Rechtsphilosophie
United States
USA
United States.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780226116457
022611645X