The federal government's ability to regulate business operations is provided for in the Constitution. Article 1(8) is known as the Commerce Clause; states, “Congress shall have power…to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes” (Reed, 173). Through the Commerce Clause, the government can regulate commercial activity through the use of administrative agencies, defined as “a government regulatory body that controls and supervises a particular business or area of ​​public interest and administers and enforces a particular body of law laws relevant to such activity or interest” (Administrative Agency, 1). There are two types of regulatory authority that agencies can possess; quasi-legislative and/or quasi-judicial. Quasi-legislative means that agencies can make rules and regulations that have the same impact as a law created by federal legislation. Quasi-judicial authority gives agencies the power to issue rulings, just as in federal courts. This article will focus on one particular agency, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The NRLB was created by the National Labor Relations Act of 1935, also known as the Wagner Act. In addition to creating the NLRB, the law also made three other key provisions:1. Provide employees with the right to choose a union to act as a collective bargaining agent.2. Outlaw certain behaviors of employers that generally have the effect of preventing employees from organizing or weakening their unions where they exist; these prohibited acts are called unfair labor practices.3. Authorizing the NLRB to conduct hearings on allegations of unfair labor practices and, if unfair labor practices are found to exist, to t...... half of the document ......whether it is correct and will only analyze the record of the agency records. In a judicial review of an agency's decision, the court does not "(1) reevaluate the evidence, (2) make independent determinations of fact, or (3) substitute its own view of the evidence for that of the agency" (Reed, 193). ). Therefore, if the records show that the agency did not follow certain procedures or ignored certain facts, the ruling can be overturned. It should be noted that a court is very unlikely to overturn an agency ruling. Works Cited "Administrative Agency - Legal Definition." Legal definitions. Web. July 9, 2011..Reed, O. Lee, Peter J. Shedd, Marisa Anne Pagnattaro, Jere W. Morehead The Legal and Regulatory Environment of Business Boston: McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 2010. Print