Sneaky Big Government
Federal agencies pass 28 regulations for every Congressional law passed. Clyde Wayne Crews, Jr. writes at Forbes about what he rightly calls an "Unconstitutionality Index."

He writes that "triumph of the administrative state over the Constitution's vesting of all lawmaking power solely in the Congress is all but total, and it holds under President Trump."

He continues:

So Congress passed, by this preliminary roundup, 105 laws in 2019.

As we always point out, among such annual legislative product one finds initiatives ranging from name and address designations for Post Offices and community centers for politicians and dignitaries (at least 20 of the 90 laws in 2019 do precisely that), to measures addressing robocalls, expansion of federal flood insurance, major budgetary and appropriations enactments and reauthorizations of agencies and mega-programs like the Farm Bill.

However, as usual--2019 legislative output notwithstanding--the unelected federal bureaucracy was far busier making law than Congress was.

Federal Agencies issued 2,964 rules in 2019

Comparisons?

The Index had been 34 at the end of Trump's first year, and 18 in Obama's last year. During Bush's eight years, the multiple averaged 20, while Obama's eight years averaged 29.

I like to call this ratio The Unconstitutionality Index; it's simply the multiple of agency rules over the number of laws from our elected Congress in a calendar year. That is, simply:

NUMBER OF AGENCY RULES / NUMBER OF LAWS SIGNED BY POTUS

And the essential point:

The unchanged point and takeaway of the Unconstitutionality Index is that the unelected personnel of federal agencies created in the latter half of the United States' existence, not elected members of Congress, do the bulk of lawmaking in America.

This state of affairs persists no matter the party in power, echoing our earlier point regarding the victory of the administrative state over rule of (constitutional) law.

The picture is even worse. If intrusive agency guidance documents and presidential executive orders are taken into account, non-legislative policy making assumes even greater prominence as an issue of concern. That is, "regulatory dark matter" would send the Unconstitutionality Index surging even higher if taken into account.

This is how we got the "Dear Colleague" Title IX letter during the Obama admin that pretty much turned being male on campus into being determined a rapist for any man accused.

(In case anyone's thinking "administrative orders," oh, piffle.)