Law 2101 Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Legal Certainty, Legislature, Europe 1
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From police state to welfare state: task of the state shifted towards providing community service and distributing wealth, not just maintaining law and order. Multilayer governance: admin tasks are divided between several layers of admin authorities within a national state. Nowadays also performed jointly by national and european authorities. A joint venture of the european, national and regional authorities. Instruments and powers to protect the general interest: juridical and factual acts, legislative can empower admin body to issue general rules. In admin law, private citizens can"t have competence, exercised exclusively by public authorities. Admin within the trias politica: division of powers between the legislature, the administration and the judiciary. Judiciary control whether the executive has remained within the confines of the law. Public powers: rule of law and legality principle: left half of trias politica. Legality principle requires that the admins competence to act must have a basis in legislation.
