Three-quarters of all federal laws are not enacted by Congress but are promulgated by the unelected officials who run the independent regulatory commissions. Those officials possess legislative, executive, and judicial powers, making them prosecutor, judge, and law-enforcer all in one. James Madison warned, as Montesquieu had in The Spirit of the Laws, that the collocation of these three powers in single hands would be the very definition of "tyranny."

It is indeed the case that the constitutional republic given us by the Founding Fathers, in which the power to create laws was vested squarely in Congress, has been replaced by a bureaucratic oligarchy in which the great bulk of federal laws are created by unelected officials who are largely unaccountable to Congress, the Courts, and the American people.

The Congressional Responsibility and Accountability Act restores the separation of powers and the system of checks and balances in the original constitutional design by making Congress responsible and accountable for all laws, including those promulgated by the federal agencies. Indeed, under the Act, no regulation of any significant economic impact may be enforced unless it is first codified by Congress.

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