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It's called nondelegation doctrine. The rulings pertaining to it have not been consistent but it generally holds true.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/nondelegation_doctrine

I’ve seen some discussion about that topic but I’ve found it hard to parse what people think of as far as how explicit they expect congress to be. At some point it seems unworkable/ a recipe for very inflexible government policy.

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