The same age as the turkey ceremony is 1946 Administrative Procedure Act, which governs federal rulemaking.

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The Administrative Procedure Act (1946) also provides constraints which, if ignored, might provide a basis for challenging Dodd-Frank regulations.

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To the best of our knowledge, no one has ever tabulated the sheer number of federal regulations that have been adopted since passage of the Administrative Procedure Act, or since some earlier historical benchmark.

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