The Administrative Threat

Authors

Philip A. Hamburger, Columbia Law SchoolFollow

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Publication Date

2017

Description

Government agencies regulate Americans in the full range of their lives, including their political participation, their economic endeavors, and their personal lives. As a result, administrative power is a pervasive feature of American life. But is this power constitutional?

A similar sort of power was once used by English kings, and this book shows that the similarity is not a coincidence. In fact, administrative power revives absolutism, and on this foundation, the book explains how administrative power is profoundly unconstitutional. In one way after another, it denies Americans the freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution, including procedural rights such as juries and due process. No other feature of American government violates more constitutional provisions or is more profoundly threatening. As a result, administrative power is the key civil liberties issue of our era.

Disciplines

Administrative Law | Law | Law and Politics

ISBN

9781594039492

Publisher

Encounter Books

City

New York, NY

Comments

Also available as an eBook through the Columbia University Libraries.

Recommended Citation

Hamburger, Philip A., "The Administrative Threat" (2017). Faculty Books. 22.
https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/books/22