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Administrative State
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Five Pillars of the Administrative State
Agency control
Executive control
Judicial control
Legislative control
Public Control

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Intelligible principle test

The legal test used most often by the Supreme Court to apply the nondelegation doctrine, the intelligible principle test, was established in 1928. In J.W. Hampton Jr. & Co. v. United States (1928), the Supreme Court ruled that when authorizing a government official or agency to regulate or otherwise implement the law, Congress must "lay down by legislative act an intelligible principle to which the person or body authorized to [act] is directed to conform." Rather than drawing a hard line against congressional delegation of legislative power, this ruling focused on the degree of discretion Congress entrusted to executive branch decision makers.

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