The delegated powers are defined as placed in distinct branches of government for the “accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands,” writes James ...

The Legislative Vesting Clause thus does not itself serve as a font of powers, but rather functions as a designation of who must exercise the legislative powers granted elsewhere in the Constitution.

In the words of James Madison: “The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed ...

In the 20th century, the Supreme Court simultaneously expanded Congress’s legislative powers and allowed them to be exercised by administrative agencies.