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The Local Administrative Agencies, Maurice H. Merrill

Vanderbilt Law Review

We have become accustomed to the concept, once thoroughly horrendous to most lawyers, that the dispensation of justice may, be properly entrusted to those tribunals which, for want of a better term, we label administrative. In past years they were considered the illicit offspring of miscegenatious commingling of powers which,constitutionally, should have been kept in rigid segregation. In the last half century, this habit of thought has all but disappeared; our concern has been rather with the full acknowledgment and acceptance of these agencies into the family of makers and appliers of the law. We have undertaken to nurture and …