Legislative Functions of National Administrative Authorities / / John Preston Comer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Comer, John Preston,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1927]; ©1927
• Year of Publication: 1927
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in History, Economics, and Public Law ; 289
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)

Presents the practice of Congress in shifting a large part of its functions to the Executive. It looks at the formal law of the United States, especially complementary and contingent administrative legislation, describes the historical development of the law-making function of the executive branch, summarizes some constitutional aspects of executive administration, and examines the various safeguards that have been used against the executive in its exercise of delegated legislative power.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- I. Introduction -- II. Administrative Legislation: Distinctions and Classification -- III. The History of Administrative Legislation -- IV. The Constitutional Aspects of Delegated Legislation -- V. Interpretative Regulations: Their Place in Administrative Legislation -- VI. Administrative Legislation: Safeguards -- VII. Political Safeguards: Group Opinion in the Framing of Administrative Legislation -- VIII. Political Safeguards; Group Opinion in the Framing of Administrative Legislation, Continued -- Index