Prior-approval requirements have proliferated enormously in American life

Evidence

These considerations may help to explain the extraordinary proliferation of prerequisites that has taken place in American life in recent years. The list of things which Americans may not do or cannot do without at best Complying with some routine official formality and at worst participating in protracted proceedings to secure a discretionary official permission is extraordinarily long. — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process, 755

Categorization

• XREF: This licensing-burden critique pairs with the earlier ch9 claims about legislative inaction and procedural burdens. — connects to: Prior checking before activity enables preventive rather than retrospective justice — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process: Basic Problems in…, 753