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Is the constitution of the Fifth Republic a reliable guide to the exercise of power in France?
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- Thu Jul 11 2002

... Ian Bishop Is the constitution of the Fifth Republic a reliable guide to the exercise of power in France? Central to the foundation of the Fifth Republic was the drafting of a new constitution. This constitution, as with most other indigenous constitutions, represented, among other things, a critique of the previous system of government. In the case of the Constitution of the Fifth Republic, much of this criticism focused on the inability of the Fourth Republic to govern effectively. The men involved in the drafting of the new constitution were acutely aware of the importance of the new constitution in establishing a new system of government that would be able to address this problem. De Gaulle, who was granted authority by the National Assembly to draw up the new constitution in the wake of the Algerian crisis, saw the exercise of strong effective government as the central goal of the new constitution,














