Such an administrative state characterized nearly the entire length of the Pinochet dictatorship.

The proliferation of government, state and Federal, would amaze the framers, and the administrative state with its reams of regulations would leave them rubbing their eyes.

Administrative law arose as a response to the advent of the administrative state.

The framers, who envisioned a limited federal government, could not have anticipated the vast growth of the administrative state.

In the political sphere, "the centralized administrative state has proved to be a more thorough instrument of oppression and exploitation than the democratic capitalist state."

According to Ernst Kantorowicz, the Liber "is the birth certificate of the modern administrative state."

The union represents a majority of state administrative and clerical workers.

To insist on a rigid separation of powers in the Federal Government would "strike at the very heart of the administrative state."

Palau is divided into sixteen administrative states:

When the dormancy doctrine originated in the 19th century, the modern administrative state was unimaginable.