By Carolyn Martin (CHEC Director of Government Relations)
Administrative Power
“The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” James Madison
The most dangerous power in our government today is the administrative power. It is the power — given to the executive branch by the legislative branch and upheld by the judicial branch — which makes rules that are enforced and adjudicated in totality by the executive branch. Did you know that Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakeshop was prosecuted and sentenced by the administrative power, not by a jury of his peers as guaranteed by the sixth amendment of the Constitution?