summary obvious, claimed Sundberg, that both the legality and appropriateness of the appealed decision could be considered in one and the same appeal matter. Sundberg’s further developed his ideas on general principles inGrunddragen av allmän förvaltningsrätt (The Principal Features of General Administrative Law) in 1943. In order to develop his ‘general part’, he used great creativity to apply a pluralistic method by combining different conceivable sources into one academic unit. He stated that in many respects the rulings of the Supreme Administrative Court and the 1734 Code of Judicial Procedure had also been applied analogously within public administration. Furthermore, he advanced generalisations drawn from special laws or adopted the position that it ought to be ‘deemed to be the duty’ of a public authority to comply with a principle, that another principle was ‘intrinsic’ in some section of the Instrument of Government, that something applied as a ‘consequence of ’ or ‘corresponded’ to another principle, that the principle could be found in ordinances made hundreds of years ago or in Olaus Petri’s Domarregler [Rules for Judges]. Sundberg’s writings saw the big issues embodied in the small ones and he vacillated from the detailed regulations of special administrative laws to the protection of the integrity of citizens (which he sometimes considered inadequate) in relation to both central and local government under the general part. Hemay be considered to have been ahead of his time by emphasising the importance of objective interpretation of the law, distancing himself from teleological tendencies and the ‘Uppsala School’, upholding general principles of law and advocating wider powers of courts to review legislation. In his case too there was a close link between politics and legal science. Förvaltningsrättslig tidskrift became a forum for his views, where the articles suggest that neither the journal nor Sundberg lived up to its commendableobjective that contributions should be non-political.He claimed in 1945 that the social democratic government was undermining the state governed by law and was characterised by the same basic mindset as ‘communist Russia, fascist Italy and the national socialist German Reich’. 283
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