The Administrative State

The essential idea for the Constitution was to maximize individual liberty. It did this by enumerating a few specific limited powers to the federal government, leaving all others to the states and to the individuals. Also, fearing a government with too much power, the Constitution litterally separated those enumerated federal powers of making laws (legislative power), administering (executive power), and deciding if laws were propperly followed (judicial powers). The essential idea was for individuals to rule themselves instead of being ruled by a king or other authority.

These fundamental Constitutional principals began to erode during the early 20th century with the rise of 'scientific management' to increase efficiency and effectiveness and development of the Administrative State. “Chevron deference” referrs to the doctrine of judicial deference given to administrative action. The Chevron doctrine said that, if Congress has not directly addressed the question at the center of a legal dispute, then a court was required to uphold the agency’s interpretation of the statute, thus giving more power to government.

"... the ideas that gave rise to what is today called "the administrative state" are fundamentally at odds with those that gave rise to our Constitution. 

The rise of the administrative state that is such an integral feature of modern liberalism thus required the defeat of the separation of powers as a governing principle, at least as it was originally understood, and its replacement by a system that allows delegations of power, combination of functions, and the insulation of administration from the full measure of political and legal control.

The executive agencies, in other words, are no longer confined to carrying out specific rules enacted by Congress, but are often left to themselves to determine the rules before seeing to their enforcement.

The agency, on the basis of its expertise, and not Congress, on the basis of its electoral connection, is charged with determining the specific policy that best serves the "public interest." 

 "the destruction of this principle of separation of powers is perhaps the crowning jewel of the modern administrative revolution. Administrative agencies routinely combine all three governmental functions in the same body, and even in the same people within that body."

His example is the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) (Emphasis added. Click here for more) In short, the Administrative State makes and adjudicates policy, not just efficiently execute policy. See related YouTube clip here. The Federal Reserve Bank has become part of our unaccountable undemocratic Administrative State. (click here for more)

Effectively, the Administrative State has become a seperate branch of government combining the powers of all the other three branches. Some call it The Deep State. It has increasingly made the Constitution irrelevant; become divorced from any accountability to We, the People and represents a clear danger to individual liberty . “The threat to democracy — the existential threat to democracy — is the unelected bureaucracy of lifetime, tenured civil servants who believe they answer to no one; who believe they can do whatever they want without consequence; who believe they can set their own agenda, no matter what Americans vote for,” (source)

The chaos, confusion, vitriol and mayhem is not happening by chance. It is being manufactured by those constituting the invisible government (aka Deep State) as a means to their end game – Digital IDs, CBDCs, Social Credit Scores, 15 Minute Cities (Gulags), Great Taking leading to the Great Reset, and the depopulation of millions with the dehumanization and subjugation of the survivors. (source)

The Administrative State continues here.

The Constitution can be amended. Click here for more.
The Constitution can also be ignored / nullified / re-interpreted :
Continue with Part 2 - Transition to Democracy here.
Continue with Part 3 - Transition to The Administrative (Deep) State here.

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