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Big Government and the Administrative State
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The Railroad Commission of 1887 That Became the Model for Every Federal AgencyThe ICC lived 108 years, from rate cop to railroad ally to casualty of deregulation, and its life story is the pattern for most agencies. Woodrow Wilson Wanted a Government of Experts, and Washington Still Runs on ItWilson's 1887 essay and 1908 book argued for expert administration and against the Founders' checks. Read the passages, then see how the idea outlived him.
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