01134pab a2200157 454500008004000000100002200040245010800062260000900170300001400179362000800193520068300201650001700884650001800901650002600919773003100945180718b2005   xxu||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  aCatlaw, Thomas J.  aConstitution as executive order: the administrative state and the political ontology of "we the people"  c2005  ap.445-82.  aSep  aThis article offers a new strategy for examining the legitimacy question in public administration and representative government. A genealogy of political discourses is proposed to suggest that political forms have historically relied on a constitutive exclusion. The US constitution and administrative state are conceived of as events in this genealogy but are unique in that both deny the ontologically constitutive effect of the exclusion. Administration and constitutionalism are described as liberal political technologies, deployed to re-present and fabricate "the People", that is, to bring into reality the organic totality that is ontologically presupposed. -Reproduced.  aSovereignity  aConstitutions  aPublic administration  aAdministration and Society