Editing Interstate Commerce Commission (section)

==Legacy==
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The ICC served as a model for later regulatory efforts. Unlike, for example, state medical boards (historically administered by the doctors themselves), the seven Interstate Commerce Commissioners and their staffs were full-time regulators who could have no economic ties to the industries they regulated. Since 1887, some state and other federal agencies adopted this structure. And, like the ICC, later agencies tended to be organized as multi-headed independent commissions with staggered terms for the commissioners. At the federal level, agencies patterned after the ICC included the [[Federal Trade Commission]] (1914), the [[Federal Communications Commission]] (1934), the [[U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission|Securities and Exchange Commission]] (1934), the [[National Labor Relations Board]] (1935), the [[Civil Aeronautics Board]] (1940), [[Postal Regulatory Commission]] (1970) and the [[U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission|Consumer Product Safety Commission]] (1975).

In recent decades, this regulatory structure of independent federal agencies has gone out of fashion. The agencies created after the 1970s generally have single heads appointed by the President and are divisions inside executive Cabinet Departments (e.g., the [[Occupational Safety and Health Administration]] (1970) or the [[Transportation Security Administration]] (2002)). The trend is the same at the state level, though it is probably less pronounced.

===International influence===
The Interstate Commerce Commission had a strong influence on the founders of Australia. The [[Constitution of Australia]] provides ([[s:Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act#Chapter IV. Finance and Trade.|§§ 101-104]]; also [[s:Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act#Chapter III. The Judicature.|§ 73]]) for the establishment of an [[Inter-State Commission]], modeled after the United States' Interstate Commerce Commission. However, these provisions have largely not been put into practice; the Commission existed between 1913–1920, and 1975–1989, but never assumed the role which Australia's founders had intended for it.