The objective service to general interest in the Constitution and its legal translation

Abstract

The Constitution explicitly addresses the issue of the objective service of civil administrations to general interests in Article 103.1. This constitutional mandate is the first foundation of the action of the civil administrations, so that other principles may be added, but this, in any case, may be dispensed unless canceled. The framers of the Constitution decided, therefore, that the public interest objectively served was a constitutionalized principle. The obvious legal consequence is that civil administrations, whose performance is positively subjected to the norm, have a degree of autonomy that is not equivalent in this respect to a particular. Thus, in their relations among themselves and with the public, shall comply with the search and pursuit of the public interest objectively or neutraly appropriate, in accordance with the general will.