The article deals with the ideological and theoretical foundations of the French constitutionalism of the Third Republic. The author notes that the Constitution of the Third Republic was a result of the continuous struggle between the supporters of the republican form of government and monarchists in the National Assembly. A compromise, reached by legislators in 1875, led to the uniting of different approaches to the organization of French governmental power in the Constitution. The views of Duke V. de Broglie, E. Laboulaye and L.-A. Prévost-Paradol were reflected in the Constitutional Law of the Third Republic. As a consequence, there was an acceptance of the institutions and authorities of public law specific to a dual monarchy. However, those public and legal institutions turned out to be indifferent to the form of government, that, in its turn, determined the longevity of the main constitutional and legal institutions, established in the last quarter of the nineteenth century.
The aim of the article is to discuss the prominent features of French constitutionalism that were formed in the last quarter of the 19th century. The author underlines the particular importance of the constitutional experience of France and notes that the form of government and the several political institutions established with the proclamation of the Third Republic also exist in general terms at the present time. Further in the text, the author observes that the practice of the state and legal construction of the French Third Republic was in many ways rather distant from constitutional establishments. It is emphasized that in the practical implementation of the Constitution, the Parliament (mainly the Chamber of Deputies) came to play a major role in the system of government and that in turn has been largely responsible for the durability of the basic constitutional and legal institutions of the Third Republic.
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