Administrative Law Origins
Administrative Law Origins
Although the term administrative law was not used until the 20th century, the concern with maintaining controls over the power of government goes back in English law as far as the Magna Carta. By the 19th century, courts on the European continent had recognized a separate administrative law, which was often known by the French term droit administratif. In the U.S. it was the New Deal of the 1930s, with its accompanying proliferation of government agencies, that led the courts to apply a distinctive body of law to the operation of these agencies. (1)
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