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  1. LII
  2. U.S. Constitution Annotated
  3. Article I. Legislative Branch
  4. Section I
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    Section 1 Legislative Vesting Clause
    • Overview of Legislative Vesting Clause
      • Historical Background
        • Origin of Limits on Federal Power
          • Origin of a Bicameral Congress
            • The Great Compromise of the Constitutional Convention
              • Legislative Power and the Executive and Judicial Branches
              • Legislative Power in the Constitutional Framework
                • Separation of Powers and Checks and Balances
                  • Functional and Formalist Approaches to Separation of Powers
                    • Enumerated, Implied, Resulting, and Inherent Powers
                      • Bicameralism
                      • Delegations of Legislative Power
                        • Overview of Delegations of Legislative Power
                          • Historical Background on Delegating Legislative Power
                            • Delegating Legislative Power to Fill Up the Details
                              • Contingent Delegations and Nondelegation Doctrine
                              • Nondelegation Doctrine
                                • Overview of Nondelegation Doctrine
                                  • Historical Background on Nondelegation Doctrine
                                    • Origin of Intelligible Principle Standard
                                      • Nature and Scope of Intelligible Principle Doctrine
                                        • Agency Discretion, Chevron Deference, and Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo
                                          • Major Questions Doctrine and Canons of Statutory Construction
                                          • Categories of Legislative Power Delegations
                                            • Criminal Statutes and Nondelegation Doctrine
                                              • Delegations of Foreign and Military Affairs to the President
                                                • States and Legislative Power Delegations
                                                  • Quasi-Governmental Entities and Legislative Power Delegations
                                                    • Private Entities and Legislative Power Delegations
                                                      • Taxes and Delegations of Legislative Power Delegations
                                                        • Individual Liberties and Delegations of Legislative Power

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