administrative power
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From 294 U.S. 435 - Miller v. United States · 1935Most cited · 496 citing opinions
The vice of the regulation, therefore, is that it assumes to convert what in the view of the statute is a question of fact requiring proof into a conclusive presumption which dispenses with proof and precludes dispute. This is beyond administrative power. The only authority conferred, or which could be conferred, by the statute is to make regulations to carry out the purposes of the act—not to amend it.