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gutzmank
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The existence of the alphabet soup agencies would facially be understood to violate the delegation doctrine (that is, Article I, Section 1 of the Constitution), but the courts have generally allowed Congress to create them anyway. You might research the Revolution of 1937, to which I devote attention in The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution.

http://kevingutzman.com/books/PoliticallyIncorrectConstitution.html

For more depth, see White’s The Constitution and the New Deal.