Power Without Responsibility: How Congress Abuses the People Through Delegation [Large Print]

by David Schoenbrod

Book Overview

This book argues that Congress's process for making law is as corrosive to the nation as unchecked deficit spending.

David Schoenbrod shows that Congress and the president, instead of making the laws that govern us, generally give bureaucrats the power to make laws through agency regulations. Our elected "lawmakers" then take credit for proclaiming popular but inconsistent statutory goals and later blame the inevitable burdens and disappointments...

• Format: Paperback
• Large Print: Yes
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300065183
• ISBN13: 9780300065183
• Release Date: August 1995
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 2.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"