ABSTRACT
Administrative procedural machinery is much more than a tool for the implementation of a political ideology. The growth of schools of public administration with their type of program is indicative of the trend with respect to the scope of the training of the administrative official. J. J. Goodnow recognized the close relation between administration and the underlying philosophy of the government. The distinguishing feature between modern democratic government and governments apparently based on democratic principles is the establishment of procedures, of administrative machinery for the effectuation of the basic democratic tenets. The importance of the administrative and procedural was eloquently summarized by Quincy Wright at the time of the Munich settlement: The fundamental legal criticism of the settlement rests on the fact that the statesmen responsible for it placed the substance of the settlement ahead of the procedure by which it was achieved.
