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Even from the perspective of keeping authoritative powers held within the reins of the people, it is better for rules and regulations to be legislated into proper laws by the legislature.

Legislatures are voted in by and answer to the people, at least ostensibly. Government agencies don't necessarily answer to the people.

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Yet legislators are in the grasp of associations, who want no such legislation to occur and either block it or never allow it to be proposed. They are in the clutches of corporations & oligarchs.

That sounds like the problem to solve then. Otherwise you're just applying a band-aid to an aortic rupture.

Hence my comment about the US being what it likes to call a "failed state," which was promptly and thoroughly down-voted. :-)

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