Administrative Law -Chapter Quiz

Without government intervention, monopolies would likely occur, and monopolies will likely decrease competition in the economy.

• True

• False

Administrative regulations are not legally binding unless they are published.

• True

• False

The Supreme Court reserves the right to overturn all or part of any law passed by Congress and the President where the delegation of legislative power to the agency is too broad.

• True

• False

Congress has the expertise to develop specialized knowledge relating to high speed and mobile communications such that it can make very effective rules on federal communications policies on its own, without assistance from a federal government agency with specific expertise.

• True

• False

Which of the following is the first federal agency to be created?

• The Interstate Commerce Commission

• The Federal Communications Commission

• The Federal Trade Commission

• The Securities and Exchange Commission

• The National Labor Relations Board

Which of the following is a fair criticism of the legitimacy of administrative lawmaking?

• The industries regulated often gain undue influence over (or "capture") the agencies that are supposed to regulate them.

• Agencies tend to stimulate the ability to compete.

• They always overregulate, thereby stifling individual initiative.

• Most agency activities are not reviewable

Which of the following is NOT true about federal rulemaking?

• When engaging in formal rulemaking, agencies must hold an adversary hearing.

• Administrative regulations are not legally binding unless they are published.

• Agencies can affect future conduct more directly by announcing rules that apply to all who come within the agency’s regulations.

• The acts creating most of the federal agencies expressly grant them authority to engage in rulemaking.

• Agencies are legally required to debate over proposed rules, though they often do not do so.

This "doctrine" states that anyone wishing to appeal an agency action must wait until the agency has taken final action.

• The exhaustion doctrine

• The ripeness doctrine

• The standing doctrine

• The mootness doctrine

Final agency rules published in the _____ has the same legal effect as a bill passed by Congress and signed into law by the president.

• Code of Federal Regulations

• Administrative Procedure Act

• Freedom of Information Act

• enabling act

• Federal Register

Agencies are subject to

• Legislative control by Congress

• Executive control by the President

• Judicial control by the courts

• a and b

• a, b, and c