Nowhere in the Constitution is the Congress given the power to create executive branch agencies separate from the Executive's authority.
And the notion that the Congress can create agencies with no oversight and invest them with executive rule-making power over the American people, whose own elected executive (the president) is powerless to overrule these agencies or reconstitute their appointed leadership, may be many things, but "democratic" is not among them.
The highest exercise of democracy is the notion that through their collective votes, the people wield the ultimate authority. Early 20th Century Wilsonian thought was appalled at the thought that the great unwashed could be allowed to exercise actual power - which was best left to their social and intellectual betters.
That three Supreme Court justices not only believe untrammeled bureaucracy is somehow enshrined in the Constitution, but that these "independent" agencies are equally immune from judicial oversight, is a sad statement on the intellectual life of the current loyal opposition.
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