When Federal Agencies Exceed Their Authority

Over the past 50 years, we have been evolving from a government by the rule of congressional law into a new extra-constitutional administrative state comprised of politically unaccountable federal agencies that rule through the issuance of regulations that now reach into every corner of American life. Peter Wallison's Judicial Fortitude is a compelling analysis of the reasons for the administrative state's growth, the ways in which federal agencies exceed their statutory authority and the threat all this now poses to the Constitution's primary safeguards of our individual liberties.