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Delegation of Congressional Lawmaking and Judicial Power to Agencies II

Learn about more tools that Congress uses to delegate and constrain lawmaking power, and how Congress delegates judicial power to agencies.

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I. Introduction

Federal agencies are born, live, operate, and sometimes die, by statute. In this lesson, we’ll consider some of the ways that Congress regulates and oversees administrative agencies. We’ll also look at how Congress delegates judicial decision-making power to agencies.

II. Enabling Legislation

The most important source of legal authority for an agency is the original enabling statute, sometimes called an agency’s organic statute. In it, Congress creates the agency, describes what...