Regulatory Reform Legislation of 1981: Hearings Before the Committee on Governmental Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-seventh Congress, First Session, on S. 344 and S. 1080, May 12 and June 23, 1981

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Página 407 - The doctrine of the separation of powers was adopted by the Convention of 1787, not to promote efficiency but to preclude the exercise of arbitrary power. The purpose was, not to avoid friction, but, by means of the inevitable friction incident to the distribution of the governmental powers among three departments, to save the people from autocracy.
Página 408 - When the President takes measures incompatible with the expressed or implied will of Congress, his power is at its lowest ebb, for then he can rely only upon his own constitutional powers minus any constitutional powers of Congress over the matter.
Página 408 - When the President acts in absence of either a congressional grant or denial of authority, he can only rely upon his own independent powers, but there is a zone of twilight in which he and Congress may have concurrent authority, or in which its distribution is uncertain.
Página 150 - ... avail itself of experience, to exercise its reason, and to accommodate its legislation to circumstances.
Página 408 - When the President acts pursuant to an express or implied authorization of Congress, his authority is at its maximum, for it includes all that he possesses in his own right plus all that Congress can delegate.
Página 548 - Columbia, having considered the same, report favorably thereon with amendments and recommend that the bill as amended do pass. The amendments are as follows...
Página 492 - Any preliminary, procedural, or intermediate agency action or ruling not directly reviewable shall be subject to review upon the review of the final agency action.
Página 384 - Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 435 US 519, 558 (1978) (NEPA review is "essentially procedural"). 102. Platt, at 305-07. 103. MGL ch. 30, ss. 61-62H; 301 CMR 11.03. See Jay Wickersham, "EIR and Smart Growth,
Página 265 - In the framework of our Constitution, the President's power to see that the laws are faithfully executed refutes the idea that he is to be a lawmaker. The Constitution limits his functions in the lawmaking process to the recommending of laws he thinks wise and the vetoing of laws he thinks bad.
Página 594 - The Federal Trade Commission is an administrative body created by Congress to carry into effect legislative policies embodied in the statute in accordance with the legislative standard therein prescribed, and to perform other specified duties as a legislative or as a judicial fcid.

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