Doctrines about the power of executive agencies and officers: administrative law as a field, deference to agency readings of statutes, the nondelegation and major questions doctrines, the state action doctrine, executive privilege, the Shawcross principle on ministerial intervention in prosecutions, and the sinecure office. A doctrine belongs here when its cited article describes a rule on executive or agency power. It excludes constitutional structure and statutory interpretation.
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Administrative Law and Delegation Doctrines
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Administrative Law (Wikipedia)
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Administrative law is a division of law governing the activities of executive branch agencies of government.
Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. (Wikipedia)
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Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 467 U.S. 837 (1984), was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court of the United States that set forth the legal test used when U.S. federal courts must defer to a government agency's interpretation of a law or statute.
Wikipedia: Executive privilege
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Executive privilege is the right of the president of the United States and other members of the executive branch to maintain confidential communications under certain circumstances within the executive branch and to resist some subpoenas and other oversight by the legislative and judicial branches of government in pursuit of particular information or personnel relating to those confidential communications.
Major questions doctrine (Wikipedia)
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The major questions doctrine is a principle of statutory interpretation in United States administrative law under which, pursuant to recent Supreme Court precedent, courts have held that questions of major political or economic significance may not be delegated by Congress to executive agencies absent sufficiently clear and explicit authorization.
Nondelegation Doctrine (Wikipedia)
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The doctrine of nondelegation (or non-delegation principle) is the theory that one branch of government must not authorize another entity to exercise the power or function which it is constitutionally authorized to exercise itself.
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