Some Remarks on the Origin of Substantive Administrative Law in Western Europe

The origin of substantive administrative law in the modern era in Western Europe would not have been possible without absolutism which interferes with many aspects of social life, the Enlightenment modernization paradigm, confessionalization forming the monarch’s position in the religious sphere, the implementation of the assumptions of eudaimonism and paternalism, the use of the document and the chancellery as tools of bureaucracy and monarchical legislation that gave legal norms a supra-class character.