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Desuetude

British pronunciation/dɪsjˈuːətjˌuːd/
American pronunciation/dɪsˈuːɾuːd/
Desuetude
[NOUN]
1

a state of inactivity or disuse

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1And it's important to know here what this statute said, because what was at issue here was whether a doctrine that says you can't delegate legislative power to agencies, unbridled, unconstrained legislative power, a doctrine that had been in desuetude for 85 years as Cass Sunstein once famously wrote.
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