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Toward Constitutional Administration · Wurman

Ilan Wurman's 2016 essay in National Affairs takes up the conservative critique of the administrative state and asks what a constitutional version would look like. Rather than abolishing the agencies, it proposes restoring the separation of powers within and around them: Congress legislating, courts judging, and a president answerable for execution.

Read in the Roots of American Order summer seminar, June 2026.

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