{"product_id":"is-administrative-law-unlawful-philip-hamburger-9780226324630","title":"Is Administrative Law Unlawful?","description":"Is administrative law unlawful? This provocative question has become all the more significant with the expansion of the modern administrative state. While the federal government traditionally could constrain liberty only through acts of Congress and the courts, the executive branch has increasingly come to control Americans through its own administrative rules and adjudication, thus raising disturbing questions about the effect of this sort of state power on American government and society.\u003cbr\u003e With \u003ci\u003eIs Administrative Law Unlawful?, \u003c\/i\u003e Philip Hamburger answers this question in the affirmative, offering a revisionist account of administrative law. Rather than accepting it as a novel power necessitated by modern society, he locates its origins in the medieval and early modern English tradition of royal prerogative. Then he traces resistance to administrative law from the Middle Ages to the present. Medieval parliaments periodically tried to confine the Crown to governing through regular law, but the most effective response was the seventeenth-century development of English constitutional law, which concluded that the government could rule only through the law of the land and the courts, not through administrative edicts. Although the US Constitution pursued this conclusion even more vigorously, administrative power reemerged in the Progressive and New Deal Eras. Since then, Hamburger argues, administrative law has returned American government and society to precisely the sort of consolidated or absolute power that the US Constitution--and constitutions in general--were designed to prevent.\u003cbr\u003e With a clear yet many-layered argument that draws on history, law, and legal thought, \u003ci\u003eIs Administrative Law Unlawful? \u003c\/i\u003ereveals administrative law to be not a benign, natural outgrowth of contemporary government but a pernicious--and profoundly unlawful--return to dangerous pre-constitutional absolutism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Philip Hamburger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 022632463X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780226324630\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Chicago Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/08\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 648\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.96lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 10.00h x 4.77w x 1.41d","brand":"Philip Hamburger","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44202043932927,"sku":"9780226324630","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ebab199b-43ea-4667-8fea-48fdbbac5bf8.jpg?v=1691492901","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/is-administrative-law-unlawful-philip-hamburger-9780226324630","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}