1.2 Relationship between Constitutional Law and Administrative Law

The distinction (the classic exam table): Constitutional law Administrative law The state's structure: the organs' creation, the powers' allocation, the rights' fundamentals The administration's working: the machinery's operation, the powers' exercise The grand architecture The working detail Relatively stable Dynamic, growing with governance's needs Concerned with power's location Concerned with power's control The connections (the mature answer's second half): The flow: administrative law flows from the constitution — the rule-of-law and separation anchors (Unit 2) are constitutional commands administered by administrative law; The bridge: the judicial-review jurisdiction (Articles 133/144) is a constitutional power whose exercise IS administrative law in action; The identity in action: administrative law as "the constitution in action" — the rights the constitution declares, administrative law realizes (or betrays) in the office, the licence, the hearing.