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[rant mode]When I was in school, I learned that laws were passed by elected legislators, and had to be signed off by the executive branch; at which point the law was valid unless repealed or overturned by the judiciary.

Nowhere did I learn that unelected, anonymous bureaucrats could make laws just by calling them something else, nor did I learn that legislators could delegate their lawmaking.

In my opinion, many of today's ills are the direct result of unelected anonymous bureaucrats in various alphabet agencies making laws.[/rant mode]

Personally, if I were ever on jury where someone were charged with violating a regulation or rule, I would hang the jury before I convicted them. (And no, I'm not inclined to become a test case myself.)