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This administration has found the person who has the most incentive to destroy a particular government agency, then puts them in charge of it.

See: Pruitt & EPA, DeVos & DoE, Pai & FCC.

And now Kavanaugh has been put on the Supreme Court specifically because his view is that the entire idea of Congress delegating authority to government agencies is unconstitutional.

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> the entire idea of Congress delegating authority to government agencies is unconstitutional.

Authority? More like responsibility, aka implementation. I happen to believe that congress born agencies should never have been created. Anything Congress creates becomes a self-sustaining, unkillable organization, because...Congress is glacial in deciding anything.

Any government born agency (regardless of branch) has authority. Which is more efficient and reliable, Congressional Agencies or Cabinet Bureaus? The threat that a Bureau can be dissolved at any time is important to their operation.

I am not sure what you are trying to say. Do you have any examples?

I believe he's getting at the Nondelegation Doctrine [0].

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nondelegation_doctrine

This would also prevent congress from delegating war making powers to the President. In essence a formal declaration would then be required before military force could be used. I think it would be a healthy change.

Congress seems to have given up on using their powers because they are way too busy fighting each other. So they delegate decisions to the president.

The official terminology is delegated legislative power.

I'm not sure authority is meaningfully different than power in the context of that comment, but since specifics are important in politics, I'll try to be as precise as possible.

Exactly. They put people in charge of departments they either hate or don't understand like Ross at Commerce or Perry at Energy.

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