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From Dual to Cooperative Federalism—How the Administrative State Replaced the Republic

  • Writer: Jeff Kellick
    Jeff Kellick
  • Nov 8, 2025
  • 1 min read

From General Welfare to the Great Society - Ep. 05



The Founders built a republic of separated powers and enumerated limits. By 1946, America lived under an administrative state of consolidated power and procedural formalities.


And most people didn’t even notice it happening.


In Episode 5 of the series we show how 1937’s dramatic constitutional revolution became the mundane bureaucratic routine—the “quiet revolution after the revolution.

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