Defender of the faith, like Henry VIII? Nah. Defender of Islam.
Come to think, WH Guy does remind one (me) of that Tudor rascal. As in this:
A Henry VIII clause is the term given to a provision in a primary Act which gives the power for
secondary legislation (regulations) to include provisions which amend, repeal or are inconsistent
with the primary legislation. The effect of a Henry VIII clause is that whoever who makes the
regulations has been delegated legislative power by the Parliament. In other words, the executive
arm of government would have the power to make regulations which can modify the application of
the primary statute.
The original Henry VIII clause was contained in the Statute of Sewers in 1531, which gave the
Commissioner of Sewers powers to make rules which had the force of legislation (legislative power),
powers to impose taxation rates and powers to impose penalties for non-compliance. A later Statute
of Proclamations (1539) allowed the King to issue proclamations which had the force of an Act of
Parliament. Both these were passed during the time of Henry VIII.
He invented legislation by bureacrats and usurped his legislature.
Blithe Spirit 
Good point. I suspect that much of the legislation passed creating the executive agencies gave them huge leeway in regulating aspects of their domains. Hence the runaway regulations of the EPA, for example.
We need to get rid of most of those agencies (and the people who work there sucking up tax dollars and creating paper piles and trouble for the rest of us). Let those federal workers get real jobs making things or providing services for the other taxpayers. Imagine the screaming if this were done by a Republican president and Congress?
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