Robert Moses Creating An Original Legal Construction Of Public Authority

Summary Of Evidence:
According to the New York State Office of the State Comptroller, “Public Authorities are corporate instruments of the State created by the legislature to further public interests...Some public authorities are completely self-supporting and operate entirely outside the budget process…” This office goes on to explain that copious numbers of public authorities perform beyond the usual oversight and accountability requirements for operations that most state agencies have to follow("Office of the New York State Comptroller - Thomas P. DiNapoli - Home").
Robert Moses is the source of this independent, less regulatable, government extension. When Robert Moses drafted bills to create public authorities to support his public works
Starting in an environment in which most people who tried to accomplish large projects were finding it difficult to find funding and gain the physical space needed, Robert Moses became a sign of hope. Creating a original legal construct that allowed for a powerful mixture between a government and private Robert Moses paved the way not only for himself, but countless others also. Public authorities were also ways for Robert Moses to write himself more power. With each new layer and extra clause written into the public authorities legal construct more and more power was added. Robert Moses was intuitive in the way he made every clause seem innocent when considered separately but created a sum of power that made those projects that seemed impossible seem very plausible. Public Authorities had the power to make rules and structures, enforce their efforts with a police power, and keep the profit they received from its plans. The perfect mixture of government and private powers, public authorities became the ultimate tool in any public works coordinator’s tool belt. Moses was one of the largest users of this tool which is fitting because he created it. Robert Moses had all he need to make the changes he always wanted. Robert Moses’ long term dreams of a better New York began to take shape but to make room for these changes people were displaced and communities upsetted. Bridges were raised, tunnels were dug, power was harnessed, parks were developed and decorated, and parkways and expressways made transportation, for those who had a car, faster and simpler the ever. As more and more changes began to take place and more and more people begin to look to Moses for his expertise Moses’ political and personal power begins to rise. Moses became more powerful than mayors and governors and if Moses wanted he could have a major impact on decisions.