The Legal Politics of the Establishment and Governance of the National Nutrition Agency
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The establishment of the National Nutrition Agency as a massive budget entity through Presidential Regulation triggers constitutional anomalies by disregarding legislative hierarchy and expertise meritocracy. This doctrinal legal research deconstructed executive legal politics pathology and government ethics implications using conceptual parameters, structural regulation, and comparative constitutional law. The analysis conclusively proves that founding giant institutions without constitutional delegation represents executive dominance paralyzing power limitation mechanisms, while institutional legitimacy is engineered through parliamentary budget pragmatism. Lacking meritocratic instruments that prevent medical nonexpert leadership appointments demonstrably creates epistemological dissonance, triggers jurisdictional disharmony, and fatally degrades public health safety standards. This study asserts that mass nutrition interventions fundamentally require absolute comprehensive institutional restructuring. This research offers prescriptive novelty by recommending an independent medical oversight committee under legislative frameworks to secure accountability systems, critically enriching global constitutionalism discourses regarding contemporary administrative law resilience and public health governance for universal social welfare policy formulations internationally.
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