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Legislative Veto Of Administrative Rules In Missouri: A Constitutional Virus, Kenneth D. Dean

Missouri Law Review

The last sixty years have witnessed an enormous growth at the federal and state levels in both the number and size of administrative bureaucracies.' Agencies have been created to implement and administer legislation passed by the Congress or state legislatures. The grant of rulemaking authority has been given to executive agencies because legislatures have often found themselves unable, or unwilling, to fine-tune laws addressing today's increasingly complex society. The fine-tuning has been left to administrative agencies, particularly where scientific, economic, or other expertise is needed to determine how the law should be implemented. The purpose of this Article is to …