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04035aam a2200481 i 4500 001 B9C6096CDEE811EBB94CC8CD21ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210707010029 008 200930t20212021ksu b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2020042477 020 $a 0700632077 020 $a 9780700632077 035 $a (OCoLC)1198989386 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d BDX $d YDX $d UKMGB $d YDX $d OCLCO $d GWL $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a JK421 $b .C636 2021 082 00 $a 352.3/670973 $2 23 100 1 $a Cook, Brian J., $d 1954- $e author. 245 14 $a The fourth branch : $b reconstructing the administrative state for the commercial republic / $c Brian J. Cook. 264 1 $a Lawrence, Kansas : $b University Press of Kansas, $c [2021] 300 $a xv, 274 pages ; $c 24 cm. 490 1 $a Studies in government and public policy 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Challenges in commercial republican regime design -- Part I. Searching for the commercial public interest -- The political constitution of the American commercial republic -- Nation building, the public economy and the First Amendment -- Corporate consolidation, the privatized economy, and the second administrative state -- Part II. Reconstructing the commercial republic and the administrative state -- The case for a fourth branch -- Alternative and competing solutions -- The design of a fourth branch -- Conclusion : setting administration in its rightful place -- Appendix. Variant text A of the Virginia Plan. 520 $a "The American commercial republic is in trouble, and the administrative state in its current form is a serious contributor to the difficulties. So argues Brian J. Cook in this argument for rethinking and reconstructing the constitutional design of the United States. Conflicts over the status and reach of government administration are as old as the American republic, born as it was out of protests against the corruption of colonial administration by the Crown's officers. Since then the seemingly mundane matters of day-to-day governmental operations repeatedly have been raised to the level of constitutional debate. Without a monarch to personify tyranny, Americans are more than happy to make 'big government' administration-public organizations and the bureaucrats who operate them the embodiment of their worries, fears, and disaffections. Brian J. Cook argues that what underlies these debates are serious systemic and institutional problems stemming from flaws in the American regime's design that have never been effectively rectified. The rise of the administrative state has been a patchwork effort that has led to a stream of adjustments to cope with stresses and strains, but a systemic problem requires a systemic solution. This book dispenses with the assumption that the Constitution's root structure is inviolable and proposes instead to alter the Constitution's separation-of-powers design to elevate administration to the status of an independent fourth branch"-- $c Provided by the publisher. 650 0 $a Administrative agencies $z United States $x Reorganization. 650 0 $a Administrative procedure $z United States. 650 0 $a Public administration $z United States. 650 0 $a Separation of powers $z United States. 650 0 $a Constitutional history $z United States. 650 7 $a Administrative agencies $x Reorganization. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00796798 650 7 $a Administrative procedure. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00796890 650 7 $a Constitutional history. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00875777 650 7 $a Public administration. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01081976 650 7 $a Separation of powers. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01112740 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 830 0 $a Studies in government and public policy 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231020012544.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20210707012351.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=B9C6096CDEE811EBB94CC8CD21ECA4DB 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search