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/ˌɪndɪpˈɛndənt ˈeɪdʒənsi/ Listen

Independent agency

noun

An agency of the United States government that is created by an act of Congress and is independent of the executive departments.

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"Independent agency" Quotes from Famous Books

... Socinians, who reject most consistently the doctrine of human corruption, and the atonement of Christ, together with the correspondent doctrines of the Gospel, as altogether out of place in a scheme which denies the freedom of human actions and reduces all independent agency to that of the Deity alone; while the Calvinist subjects the human race to an inevitable necessity of sinning, denies to them individually, even the semblance of a probationary course—makes them accountable, yet withholds ...

— On Calvinism • William Hull

... more serious objection may be urged against the present strictness of scholastic discipline—which is, that it deprives the boy of a sense of free and independent agency. I speak this with limitations, for a master should be a monarch in his school, but by no means a tyrant; and decidedly the very worst species of tyranny is that which stretches the young mind upon the ...

— The Hedge School; The Midnight Mass; The Donagh • William Carleton