An '''Administrative State''' or '''Regulatory State''' is generally, as was defined by John Rohr: "the expert agency tasked with important governing functions through loosely drawn statutes that empower unelected officials to undertake such important matters as preventing 'unfair competition', granting licenses as 'the public interest, convenience or necessity' will indicate, maintaining a 'fair and orderly market,' and so forth."<ref name="Rockwell">{{cite book|last1=Rockwell|first1=Stephen|title=Indian Affairs and the Administrative State in the Nineteenth Century|date=1942|publisher=Cambridge University Press|pages=4}}</ref> It is similar to the [[deep state]].
An Administrative State has been described as "[[Bureaucratic Despotism]]" by [[Hillsdale College]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://online.hillsdale.edu/page.aspx?pid=1185 |title=Constitution 201: The Progressive Rejection of the Founding and the Rise of Bureaucratic Despotism |work=Hillsdale College }}</ref> It results in a disproportionately powerful bureaucracy.<ref>Van Beek, Michael (January 2, 2020). [https://thehill.com/opinion/judiciary/475996-dangers-of-the-regulatory-state-powerful-bureaucrats Dangers of the regulatory state: Powerful bureaucrats]. ''The Hill''. Retrieved January 2, 2020.</ref> As an example of the reach of the administrative state, between 2010 and 2019, the federal government enacted an average of 20 regulations for every law passed by Congress.<ref>Bedard, Paul (January 2, 2020). [https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/unconstitutionality-index-swamp-imposed-20-regulations-for-every-law-over-decade Unconstitutionality Index: Swamp imposed 20 regulations for every law over decade]. ''Washington Examiner''. Retrieved January 3, 2020.</ref>
==History==
==Modern==
While the early progressives set their sites on regulating trusts and corporations, this has evolved. [[ObamaCare]], for example, does include loose definitions which allow for the regulation of corporations, but it also aims toward regulating individuals as well. The expansion of government bureaucracies to create regulations that govern the everyday lives of citizens is what Democrat [[Speaker Nancy Pelosi]] meant by "we have to pass it [the Obamacare bill] to see what's in it." In other words, all the Obamacare bill did was create large bureaucracies in the [[Executive branch]] and granted unelected bureaucrats the power to make regulations with the force of law. The growth of the administrative state can generally be observed in direct correlation as bureaucracies and judges adhering to a [[Living Constitution]] move us further and further away from what is actually in the [[Constitution]].<ref>[http://www.constitution.org/ad_state/ad_state.htm Nondelegation and the Administrative State]</ref><ref>[https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/battling-the-modern-administrative-state/2015/11/27/a1c639ba-9392-11e5-8aa0-5d0946560a97_story.html Battling the modern American administrative state]</ref> In the [[2020 presidential election]], administrative bureaucracies in several states seized the law making function allotted solely to the state legislatures by the [[U.S. Constitution]], to write election law and stuff ballot boxes with illegal ballots for [[Democratic party]] candidate [[Joe Biden]]. This improper and illegal action was heard before the [[United States Supreme Court]] in the case of ''[[Texas v. Pennsylvania]]''.
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==External links==
* [https://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2007/11/the-birth-of-the-administrative-state-where-it-came-from-and-what-it-means-for-limited-government The Birth of the Administrative State: Where It Came From and What It Means for Limited Government], [[Heritage Foundation]]
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