Direct government action governs its own employees through management, not law’s distinctive means

Evidence

The government, being only an idea, has still to get human beings to do whatever it undertakes. But it speaks to the human beings who act directly for it as employees rather than as members of the general society. In pursuit of its immediate objective, it uses the forms and methods of management rather than any which are distinctively governmental. — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process, 848

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Contract-based controls can reach results regulation cannot because obligations rest on agreement — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process: Basic Problems in…, 838; Government services face challenge only on scope, not propriety, when private supply fails — Henry M. Hart, Jr. and Albert M. Sacks, The Legal Process: Basic Problems in…, 858; The Rule of law separates universal laws from particular administrative measures — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics: Lectures at…, 910 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• The Rule of law separates universal laws from particular administrative measures #corroborates (0.80) — Michel Foucault, The Birth of Biopolitics, 910
• Legal control over government officials reverses but extends social control. #expands (0.80) — Lawrence M. Friedman and Grant M. Hayden, American Law, 93