As The Administrative State Weakens, Who Fills The Vacuum?
Guest Contributor As The Administrative State Weakens, Who Fills The Vacuum? Aided by a derelict Congress and a series of past Supreme Court rulings, these administrative state agencies have gone beyond simply enforcing and implementing laws passed by Congress and have instead been accumulating significant executive, legislative, and judicial power. Small-government conservatives and libertarians have decried this new “fourth branch” of government, arguing that administrative agencies staffed largely by unelected bureaucrats risk undermining our system of representative democracy.
- ▪Guest Contributor As The Administrative State Weakens, Who Fills The Vacuum?
- ▪Aided by a derelict Congress and a series of past Supreme Court rulings, these administrative state agencies have gone beyond simply enforcing and implementing laws passed by Congress and have instead been accumulating significant executive
- ▪Small-government conservatives and libertarians have decried this new “fourth branch” of government, arguing that administrative agencies staffed largely by unelected bureaucrats risk undermining our system of representative democracy.
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Guest Contributor As The Administrative State Weakens, Who Fills The Vacuum? Nikhil AgarwalJuly 24, 2026Add comment Over the past century, American life has been increasingly shaped by a variety of “alphabet soup” agencies — the SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission), EPA (Environmental Protection Agency), FDA (Food and Drug Administration), to name just a few — whose growing influence has upended the country’s delicate constitutional balance. Aided by a derelict Congress and a series of past Supreme Court rulings, these administrative state agencies have gone beyond simply enforcing and implementing laws passed by Congress and have instead been accumulating significant executive, legislative, and judicial power.
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