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Legislative Power and Regulatory Process Guide

The document is an exam checklist covering three topics: [1] legislative power and the interpretation of statutes, [2] constitutional structure and the regulatory state, and [3] the regulatory process. It lists various concepts and canons of statutory interpretation under the first topic. The second topic covers issues related to the separation of powers and congressional control over administrative agencies. Finally, the third topic outlines different procedures under the Administrative Procedure Act for rulemaking and adjudication, and also references standards of review like the Chevron and "hard look" doctrines.

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Legislative Power and Regulatory Process Guide

The document is an exam checklist covering three topics: [1] legislative power and the interpretation of statutes, [2] constitutional structure and the regulatory state, and [3] the regulatory process. It lists various concepts and canons of statutory interpretation under the first topic. The second topic covers issues related to the separation of powers and congressional control over administrative agencies. Finally, the third topic outlines different procedures under the Administrative Procedure Act for rulemaking and adjudication, and also references standards of review like the Chevron and "hard look" doctrines.

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Exam Checklist 
 
I. Legislative Power and the Interpretation of Statutes  
 
1) Purposivism 
2) Textualism 
3) Textually constrained purposivism 
4) Absurdity doctrine 
5) Scrivener’s error 
6) Ordinary versus technical meaning 
7) Legal terms of art 
8) Dictionary versus colloquial meaning 
9) New Deal and primacy of legislative history 
10) New textualism and rebuttal of ridiculous uses of legislative history 
11) Hierarchy of legislative history 
12) expressio eunis canon ("the express mention of one thing excludes all others") 
13) noscitur a sociis canon (“a word is known by its associates”) 
14) ejusdem generis canon (“of the same kind”) 
15) Constitutional avoidance canon 
16) Protecting state sovereignty and autonomy canon 
17) Rule of lenity canon 
18) Retroactivity canon 
19) “partnership model” vs. “faithful agent” model 
 
II. Constitutional Structure and the Regulatory State 
1) Vesting, Necessary and Proper, Take Care, Appointments Clauses 
2) Formalism vs. Functionalism 
3) Nondelegation doctrine 
4) Intelligible principle test 
5) Congressional Control of Agencies 
6) President’s Removal Powers 
7) “Principal” vs. “Inferior” officers 
8) “Good cause” restriction on Presidential removal powers and “unduly trammels” test 
 
III. The Regulatory Process 
1) Administrative Procedure Act 
2) Formal Rulemaking, §§ 556 and 557, adversarial hearing, “on the record” and “after a hearing” 
3) Informal rulemaking (“notice‐and‐comment”), § 556, notice, comment and explanation 
4) § 706(2)(A) and “rational basis” test for informal rulemaking (“arbitrary and capricious”) 
5) Formal adjudication, §§ 554, 556 and 557, trial‐like adversarial hearing 
6) Chevron doctrine 
7) “Hard look” doctrine 

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