STÁTNÍ TAJEMNÍK U ŘÍŠSKÉHO PROTEKTORA V ČECHÁCH A NA MORAVĚ, PRAHA, inv. 1785, sig. 109-5/13 Page 19 · 19 of 94
THE SECRETARY TO THE RUSSIAN PROTECTOR IN THINGS AND IN MORAVA, PRAGUE, inv. 1785, sig. 109-5/13
English Translation
-13 - 8V of the large-scale plans imposed by the conditions, for this already results from the fact that the task of the administration has hardly increased to a comparative extent. According to the state view, which was then influenced by the Enlightenment and Liberalism, the administration was the main task of regulating the relations between the state and the individual. For this philosophy explains and justifies the state by the fact that it came in a sense through a "contract" between the mass of the people and its proper authority, the so-called "so-called society vertr z". This results in a certain frenzy of the individual against the state authority and the state power against the mass of subjects, against the individual as the two partners - opponents. From which side one considers the state life - always we will be able to find this juxtaposition somehow, whether we are now on the side of the state and the state authority or on the sides of the "subsidiaries". The intersection, where the mutual interests collide, where, so to speak, the blades are crossed, is the Varwaltung. Accordingly, one of its tasks, which the state authority has recognized as necessary, is to make known to the population and to pull out, the social contract has, however, established binding rules on both sides, according to which the administration must also behave; these rules of the game are the laws. If the binzeine believes that this rule of play is loosed, or if he shortens himself in the bounds and words promised to him in the contract, he announces the same rules of play, or with the help of the administrative court to defend himself. The focus of all this back and forth lies naturally with the rules of the game to be observed on both sides. In the end, for the administration, it will always be in the form of the clarification and decision of a number of gas concentrations, that is already at the sigunt- -14 -