Steven F. Hayward

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Steven F. Hayward is the Thomas Smith distinguished fellow at the John M. Ashbrook Center at Ashland University, where he directs the Ashbrook Center’s program in political economy. He was previously the F.K. Weyerhaeuser fellow in law and economics at the American Enterprise Institute and a senior fellow at the Pacific Research Institute.

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    • Opinion

    How Woodrow Wilson Planted the Seeds of the Administrative State

    Steven F. Hayward
    Today the crisis of American government is expressed in an ungainly phrase that rarely appeared in conservative vocabulary in the 1950s and 1960s—the “administrative state,” by which is meant the independent “fourth branch of government” that fits nowhere within the scheme of the Constitution as understood by its authors. Conservatives were slow to perceive the…
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