Sr. Fellow Ivan Eland, author of War and the Rogue Presidency: Restoring the Republic after Congressional Failure says the Founders believed Congress would be the most dominant of the three branches of government. But Ivan Eland says Congress is shirking its responsibility to legislate, instead giving power to the executive branch. Recent Supreme Court rulings have sent the signal that behemoth administrative agencies do not have the power to legislate, only congress has that power.