On November 22nd, Missouri Circuit Judge Daniel Green wrote in a declaratory judgment that:

[Missouri’s Department of Health and Senior Services] regulations also authorize an individual health agency director to close a school or place of public assembly if “in the opinion of the [health official] the closing is necessary to protect the public health.” 19 CSR 20-20.050(3).

Thus, the state delegated rulemaking power to an administrative agency, and the administrative agency, has in turn, delegated broad rulemaking power to an unelected administrative official.

This type of double delegation, which results in lawmaking by an administrative entity, is an impermissible combination of legislative and administrative power [3].

Double delegation is chiefly a problem because it’s delegation.

Delegation—where unelected government people exercise absolute power, depriving persons of life, liberty, or property—is a problem that’s ancient [4]. Naturally, delegation was addressed by the American Revolution.

Delegation is unconstitutional [5].

Legislatures and only legislatures, with executives signing, must enact any and all rules and penalties.

All legislative powers granted in the Constitution are vested in the USA’s congresses [6]. This means that the national government’s legislative power constitutionally can’t be delegated to others.

A republican form of government is guaranteed to the people of each state [7], and therefore is guaranteed to be provided by both state and local governments. This means that the state and local governments’ legislative powers also constitutionally can’t be delegated to others.

Very likely every charter in every jurisdiction includes among its most-fundamental rules that all legislative power in the jurisdiction is vested in the jurisdiction’s legislature.

And yet now every jurisdiction has bureaucracies, and the bureaucrats exercise absolute power. Bureaucrats legislate rules and penalties themselves, executively assess rule violations, and judicially mete out penalties on we the people.

Under Progressives, the USA’s governments now put people under the very tyrannies that the USA’s people fought the American Revolution to escape. We the people now are just richer, less armed, and less organized.

The solution is for voters to make at least one jurisdiction’s legislators and executives do the right things here:

• Repeal all statutes that enable delegation.
• Repeal all statutory language other than rules and associated penalties [4].
• Repeal all statutes that reduce control by customers [8] and voluntary cooperation.
• Add new statutes only to address general [9], strong needs.
• Summarily fire [10] and summarily impeach for any violation of these norms [11].

The jurisdictions that voters can most-quickly change are local governments.