Where Judicial Politics Are Legislative Politics: The French Constitutional Council

West European Politics

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1992, Pages 29-49

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EID: 0010168444     PISSN: 01402382     EISSN: 17439655     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01402389208424919     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Louis Rougier, La France a la Recherche d'une Constitution (Paris: Sirey, 1952), p. 82.
2. L.N. Brown and J.F. Garner, French Administrative Law (London: Butterworths, 1973), p. 119.
3. Only the Council's power to review ordinary legislation is at issue here. The Council also possesses jurisdiction over pending organic laws, disputes concerning the delineation between executive and legislative acts and certain electoral disputes. See generally, Bruno Genevois, La Jurisprudence du Conseil Constitutionnel: Principes Directeurs (Paris: Editions STH, 1988).
4. Alec Stone, ‘The Birth and Development of Abstract Review: Constitutional Courts and Policy-Making in Western Europe’, Policy Studies Journal 19/1 (Fall 1990), pp. 84–7.
5. Louis Favoreu, ‘La Decision de Constitutionnalitc’, Revue de Droit Compare, No.2 (1986), pp. 628–33.
6. See Martin Shapiro, Courts: A Comparative and Political Analysis (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1980), pp. 1–64.
7. François Luchaire, ‘Le Conseil Constitutionnel: Est-il une Juridiction?’, Revue du Droit Public 95/1 (Jan.-Feb. 1979), pp. 27–52.
8. Avis et Débats du Comité Consultatif Constitutionnel (Paris: Documentation Française, 1960), pp. 101–2.
9. 71–44 DC, Recueil des Decisions du Conseil Constitutionnel (1971), p. 29.
10. The vote was 429–119. Débats, Assemblée Nationale Constituante, 7 March 1946, pp. 606–19.
11. Alec Stone, ‘In the Shadow of the Constitutional Council: The ‘Juridicisation’ of the Legislative Process in France,’ West European Politics 12/2 (April 1989), pp. 12–34.
12. This account is based on Alec Stone, The Birth of Judicial Politics in France (NY: OUP, 1992), Ch.6.
13. 81–132 DC, Recueil (1982), p. 18.
14. Rapport n°700, National Assembly, 22 Jan. 1982, pp. 3–13.
15. 82–139, Recueil (1982), p. 31.
16. See Le Monde, 20 Jan. 1982, p. 8; Le Monde, 22 Jan. 1982, p. 7.
17. See Stone, Birth of Judicial Politics in France, Ch.7.
18. Débats, National Assembly, 15 Dec. 1983, pp. 6547–8 and 16 Dec. 1983, p. 6605.
19. 84–181 DC, Recueil (1984), p. 73.
20. Débats, National Assembly, 10 June 1986, p. 4135.
21. 86–210, Recueil (1986), p. 110.
22. 86–217, Recueil (1986), p. 141.
23. See John T. S. Keeler and Alec Stone, ‘Judicial-Political Confrontation in Mitterrand's France: The Emergence of the Constitutional Council as a Major Actor in the Policy-Making Process’, in Stanley Hoffmann, Sylvia Malzacher and George Ross (eds.). The Mitterrand Experiment (NY: OUP; Oxford, UK: Polity, 1987), pp. 161–81; and Stone, ‘In the Shadow of the Constitutional Council.’
24. Le Monde, 9 Aug. 1986, p. 6 and 5 Sept. 1986, p. 8.
25. See Louis Favoreu, ‘Les Cent Premieres Annulations Prononcées par le Conseil Constitutionnel', Revue du Droit Public 103/2 (1987), pp. 442–54, updated in Favoreu, ‘Le Droit Constitutionnel Jurisprudentiel', Revue du Droit Public 105/2 (1989), p. 428.
26. 71–44 DC; 77–75 DC, Recueil (1979), p. 33; 80–127 DC, Recueil (1980), p. 15
27. 79–105 DC, Recueil, (1979), p. 33; 87–230 DC, Recueil (1987), p. 48; 82–146 DC, Recueil (1982), p. 66; 83–165 DC, Recueil (1984), p. 30.
28. 86–211 DC, Recueil (1986), p. 130; 86–213 DC Recueil (1986), p. 122; 86–214 DC, Recueil (1986), p. 135.
29. See Louis Favoreu, ‘Actualité et Legitimité du Contrôle Juridictionnel des Lois en Europe Occidentale’, Revue du Droit Public 100/5 (Sept.-Oct. 1984), pp. 1147–1201.
30. William Safran, ‘Rights and Liberties Under the Mitterrand Presidency: Socialist Innovations and Post-Socialist Revisions’, Contemporary French Civilization 12/1 (1988), pp. 1–35.
31. See Louis Favoreu, ‘Le Mythe du Gouvemement des Juges’, paper presented at Oxford University at the ‘Colloque sur les Aspects Nouveaux des Institutions de la Vcmc Republique’, Oct. 1987.
32. Nelson Polsby, ‘Legislatures’, in N. Polsby and F.L Greenstein (eds.), Handbook of Political Science, Vol. 5 (Reading, MA: Addison, Wesley, 1975), p. 277.
33. Guy Carcassonne, ‘The Fifth Republic After Thirty Years’, in Vernon Bogdanor (ed.). Constitutions in Democratic Polities (Gower: Aldershot, 1988), p. 249.
34. Pierre Pascallon, ‘Le Conseil Constitutionnel: Un Deuxième Parlement’, Revue Politique et Parlementaire, No.925 (Jan. 1986), p. 3.
35. Le Monde, 5 Sept. 1986.
36. Michel de Villiers, Note 16, Revue Administrative (Nov.-Dee. 1984), p. 587.
37. Bizarre as this may sound, Waline argued that parliament behaved as a ‘constitutional jurisdiction’ whenever it debated such motions (then under the rubric of the question préalable); the argument was then attractive because no other such jurisdiction existed. Marcel Waline, ‘Elements d'une Théorie de la Jurisdiction ConstitutionnelIe’, Revue du Droit Public, Vol.45 (1928), pp. 441–62