Creating the Administrative Constitution: The Lost One Hundred Years of American Administrative Law

by Jerry L. Mashaw

Book Overview

This groundbreaking book is the first to look at administration and administrative law in the earliest days of the American republic. Jerry Mashaw demonstrates that from the very beginning Congress delegated vast discretion to administrative officials and armed them with extrajudicial adjudicatory, rulemaking, and enforcement authority. The legislative and administrative practices of the U.S. Constitution's first century created an administrative...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300180020
• ISBN13: 9780300180022
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"