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- Title: Semi-Presidentialism a la Francaise: The Recent Constitutional Evolution of the "Two-Headed" Executive
- Author : Constitutional Forum
- Release Date : January 22, 2009
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 86 KB
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Introduction: a Semipresidential Constitution? Since 1789, the large number of constitutional texts in France has reflected ambivalence about the organization of the polity. On the one hand, by transferring the onus of sovereignty from a monarch to the people (sometimes theorized as the nation) the governing body could become a representative regime with an assembly as its main governing institution. This "pure," sometimes "excessive" parliamentary form of government was to be the basis of numerous constitutional texts. On the other hand, French constitutional texts did not necessarily excise remnants of the ancient tribal Indo-European society established through a Franco-Germanic hierarchical monarchic society. Indeed, ambivalence and discontent in French society regarding the dialectical relationship between these two poles of government today finds expression in contrasting parliamentary versus presidential regimes. The fifty-one-year-old Constitution of the Fifth Republic is an attempt to reconcile these two regime forms.