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09-06-2003, 06:46 AM
The significant growth of regulatory agencies, beginning with the New Deal, and slowing down beginning with the Carter Administration may be coming to an end. Countless financial scandals, coupled with the blackout and the free for all in the telecommunications sector, has led to a movement to increase the size of the regulatory state.
"The ratification of the Constitution, the Civil War, the Square Deal and the New Deal -- these were the great battles that established the supremacy of the federal government in regulating interstate commerce. Now, after two decades of experimentation with deregulation and devolution -- some of it successful, but some of it decidedly not -- it's time for Washington to reassert its rightful role."
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28536-2003Sep4.html
"The ratification of the Constitution, the Civil War, the Square Deal and the New Deal -- these were the great battles that established the supremacy of the federal government in regulating interstate commerce. Now, after two decades of experimentation with deregulation and devolution -- some of it successful, but some of it decidedly not -- it's time for Washington to reassert its rightful role."
Read article
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A28536-2003Sep4.html