This is a chapter for the forthcoming <u>Oxford Handbook of the United States Constitution</u>. I provide and compare three organizing frameworks for the administrative state. The first examines its constitutionality, the second its democratic credentials, the third its epistemic and technocratic...

Many presidents have been interested in asserting authority over independent regulatory agencies, such as the Federal Trade Commission, the Federal Communications Commission, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Federal Reserve Board. The underlying...

Many-minds arguments claim that in some way or another, groups of decision-makers tend to make better decisions than individuals. This essay identifies five general and recurring problems with such arguments, as follows:(1) Whose minds? The group or population whose minds are at issue is often...