...considered legitimate in Humphrey's Executor because the Court viewed the FTC as "a body of experts" "charged with the enforcement of no policy except the policy of the law" and concluded that "[s]uch a body cannot in any proper sense be characterized as an arm or an eye of...

...specified in the statute. Sutherland tried to distance the FTC from executive agencies by describing it as "charged with the enforcement of no policy except...predominantly quasijudicial and quasi-legislative." Anticipating this argument, the Justice Department had pointed out that the regular executive departments...

...executive control." Therefore "it must, from the very nature of its duties, act with entire impartiality. It is charged with the enforcement of no policy except the policy of the law. Its dudes are neither political nor executive, but predominately quasijudicial and quasi-legislative."...