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The Constitution of the Fifth Republic

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The French Constitution that governs the current political organization of France dates from 1958, although it has undergone several revisions since then. It sets out a semi-presidential regime, which ushered in a balance of power between the President and the Parliament based on the same legitimacy of universal suffrage. The section on the French Vie Publique site entitled "the Constitution of the Fifth Republic" has answers to all your questions about the highest standard of the French legal system and will help you understand the institutional and political balance of contemporary France.

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