As always, the term “delelegate” is often confused with SURRENDER– just as with the People of the states delegating powers to the federal government, is taken as a permanent surrender of those powers, as when the Jackson administration authorized the use of military force against the individual states, and the Lincoln Administration carried out such.

However in reality, “delegation” in the Constitution refers to authorizing a subordinate to carry out orderso– not not giving away the power to an independent or superior body. For example, a manager may delegate authority to an employee, but it always subject to oversight by the manager or a superior.

Here, the federal government SURRENDERED power to an independent body over which is not directly subordinate to any branch of government– and did so through normal legislative process, and not by Constitutional Amndment.

This not only breaches separation of powers, but breaches the Constitution altogether by usurpation of clearly extra-constitutional authority, exercising congressional power without direct congressional oversight.

However once the federal government usurped the power to coerce the states through military invasion, it suppressed their power of sovereign recourse; and as Madison and Jefferson warned, this made the federal government into the supreme and final judge ot its own powers– since no other power could stand against it.

So essentially the die was cast under the Lincoln Administration; and the Federal Reserve was simply a matter of time and tide– as with all other federal abuses, i.e. since the states have no recourse against them.