Year: 1938
Type: article
Abstract: The purpose of this discussion is to observe some of the developments of the national regulatory power.It will greatly simplify our consideration if we can maintain the perspective of observing the issue in terms of adjustments of government to the needs of the governed and thus escape whatever contentiousness might arise on the question of the propriety of expansion of classification for regulatory purposes.(Nor are we particularly concerned with state and national capacity for cooperative action.)I Whether or not a particular business or industry has become so affected with the public interest will thus arise only collaterally in our inquiry.It must also be borne in mind that ours is a government intended to endure through the ages with the capacity to meet various crises as they may arise'-an efficient, permanent government, with the duty of self-preservation. 2 The concept of government is here used generically and comprehends the form of the American government.Our government is not a single all-powerful government, as for example the British Parliament, but is a bicameral system of two distinct types of sovereigns.'While there are thus
Source: eYLS (Yale Law School)
Author: James B. Smith
Language: English
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3131632467