Federalism 240 years after the Constitutional Convention: Federalist 32

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Federal regulatory accumulation has swarmed the states and localities with hundreds of requirements. Congress has delegated increasing authority to federal agencies. According to PLF’s Nondelegation Project, 37% of these delegations across the Code of Federal Regulations are broad and potentially problematic grants of authority. The Congressional Budget Office reported that 190 laws were passed between 2006 and 2019 that imposed 420 mandates on state and local governments. According to the Competitive Enterprise Institute’s 2025 Ten Thousand Commandments report, there were an expected 725 federal rules affecting state and local governments on the way earlier this year.

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