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vehicle for defining and shaping society. And because Progressives wanted government action to be unhindered, they pushed
for an abandonment of procedural and structural checks on the
exercise of executive power. Quasi-law was the result-law that
was backed by the force of government but that had lost its constitutional foundations. The current morass of quasi-law, as the
legacy of Progressivism, stems from a desire for a more swift-acting government and from the false belief that any inefficiencies in
the lawmaking process are a sign of legal or political dysfunction.
The constitutional morality of the framers required seeing the
Constitution as mandating government restraint, as establishing a
frame of government intended to secure limited goals. The framers did not regard government efficiency as a top priority. Instead,
they acknowledged that the machinery of checks and balances,
meant to protect the separation of powers, was not flawed just
because it produced gridlock. But over time, the framers' constitutional morality, emphasizing procedure, caution, and restraint,
has dissolved in the face of constantly increasing demands for
more and quicker government action to achieve, unchecked, the
perfect society.
The erosion of constitutional morality, however, has led to an
institutionalization of the administrative state, and hence to the
proliferation of quasi-law. This quasi-law not only lacks accountability but also contributes to political cronyism, as it is often
geared to interest groups that are powerful enough to influence
the administrative agencies charged with regulating them. Moreover, a vast national administrative bureaucracy, which supplants
states, localities, and voluntary associations within civil society,
requires that its agents possess vast discretionary power-and
yet, such discretion violates the rule of law.
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