The original and hybrid character of the Constitution of the 5th French Republic

• Authors: Jan Wawrzyniak
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

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EN

In the article, the distinctive features of the Constitution of the 5th Republic are abalyzed. A brief discussion on some of the constitutional institutions showed the originality and novelty of the political system that was adopted after 1958. Built in the spirit of the French republican tradition, the system was based, on the one hand, on a strong and central constitutional position of the President, a twofold executive, and a parliament limited in its competences, and on the other hand, on parliamentary accountability of the government and well-developed direct democracy institutions. The French example could be considered excellent evidence of how the powerful and historic constitutional institutions could be adopted in a modern democratic state even under a concise constitution of a hybrid charakter.

Keywords

PL

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej
• Journal: Studia Iuridica Lublinensia
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 22

Dates

published

2014

online

2015-04-18

Contributors

author

Jan Wawrzyniak

Identifiers

DOI

10.17951/sil.2014.22.0.149