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100			_aCatlaw, Thomas J.
245			_aConstitution as executive order: the administrative state and the political ontology of "we the people"
260			_c2005
300			_ap.445-82.
362			_aSep
520			_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.
650			_aSovereignity
650			_aConstitutions
650			_aPublic administration
773			_aAdministration and Society
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