An agency's ability to make rules that affect how programs operate, and to force states and corporations to obey these rules as if they were laws. Here is a guide to federal rulemaking process as compiled by the Federal Register.
Why doesn’t congress just make all the rules whenever they write a law?
Do you think that unelected officials in the federal government should have the authority to make rules about how laws are enforced?
How is rulemaking authority an issue of checks and balances?
Find an image or emoji that does a good job of conveying the meaning of rulemaking authority?
The Supreme Court is currently hearing a case that will decide how much rulemaking authority bureaucratic agencies have. If they limit agency authority who then would have to make the rules?
What is one advantage of allowing bureaucrats to make and enforce rules?
Remember!
Now, let’s commit this term to our long-term memory. On a scrap piece of paper, take 10 or 20 seconds to draw rulemaking authority. Draw with symbols or stick figures if you wish. Nothing fancy. Don’t expect a masterpiece. No one else will see this but you. Look at your drawing. That’s all - now it’s downloaded into your memory. Destroy the piece of paper in a most delightful way.