There is NOTHING Constitutional about regulations being enforced as laws.

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One of the most destructive concepts that has oozed into the US Constitutional Republic is allowing regulations made by department bureaucrats to be enforced as laws. The bureaucrats that run departments are not accountable to We the People, therefore WE the People have never granted them any authority over us. Regulations are only Constitutional if they are there to put laws into action, not the other way around. Federal Laws can only be constitutional if they are passed by one of the ways set by the US Constitution. They are subject to the checks and balances of the 3 branches of government. Bureaucratic regulations have no checks and balances and can't be justified. They are tyranny passed by little dictator wannabes. For instance, the FCC has authority to regulate electronic transmissions within the United States. They have the authority to assign frequencies and call letters for radio broadcasts, "ham" radio, CB, remote control devices.. etc. But, since they are a Commission is considered an "independent agency" which means it doesn't answer to either branch of government. They are free to pass regulations that make We the People answerable to them. We can be prosecuted for violating their regulations, even if we violated no law. That is not only unethical and tyranny, that is unconstitutional and should never be allowed. What Regulations should do is put the laws pertaining to the departments into action. Yes, the FCC should be enacting regulations regarding electronic transmissions within the United States. But only when those regulations is backed by an existing law. The FCC's original charter was to ensure that civilian transmissions did not interfere with military ones. In other words, Congress passed laws, the FCC was created to make those laws work. Later, the FCC was granted the authority to ensure that civilians didn't use electronic transmissions for nefarious purposes. One example of that would be for one radio station to block or scramble the transmissions of a rival. But then the FCC took on regulatory authority that isn't backed by laws. There is no law saying that AM radio stations have to "power down" at night during the winter. However, if a radio station doesn't comply with the FCC regulation, they can be prosecuted. Now, I'm not saying that there isn't good reason for this regulation, there actually is. I'm just saying that the FCC can't claim constitutional authority to enforce this regulation without Congress and the President passing a law about it. In fact, I purposely chose a regulation that is a good idea, but isn't being enforced constitutionally.