The French Constitutional Council Legitimation Process to the test of Representative Democracy : a Study of its secrete deliberations between 1958 and 1986.
LE PROCESSUS DE LEGITIMATION DU CONSEIL CONSTITUTIONNEL FRANÇAIS A L’EPREUVE DE LA DEMOCRATIE REPRESENTATIVE - ETUDE DES DELIBERATIONS DE L’INSTITUTION A HUIS CLOS ENTRE 1958 ET 1986
Résumé
Modem democracy specificity is about representation and election of the citizens' representatives. The citizens can then consent to respect the social organisation defined in their name by their representatives. Thus, democratic legitimacy echoes to the equal participation of citizens in principle through elections. Nevertheless, constitutional Courts composed with non-elected members can interfere on the organisation of public life drrough a judicial review allowed to invalidate any voted law. Understanding what can ground their legitimacy to do so can then highlight representative democracy non-explicit features. This thesis offers to address this question from an empirical study free of any presupposition about modem democracy except the above-mentioned general definition. The French constitutional Council (CC) secrete debates have become public since 2008 constitutional reform as long as they took place twenty-five years before and they provide precious information on our topic. Analysing the shared arguments on the 1958-1986 period of time when they relate to the conception the members of the CC express of their institution legitimacy allows to identify an on-going legitimation process. Indeed, the interlocutors of the CC take back the ground for those very arguments in their future requests. This thesis offers to describe such a specific legitimation process and then opens the way to a more general reflexion about the splitting of representation of democratic institutions.
Mots clés
political theory
Constitutional courts
discursive democracy
speeches
judicial review
democratic legitimacy
French 5th Republic
law and politics
Cours constitutionnelles
théorie politique
délibérations
discours
jurisprudence constitutionnelle
Conseil constitutionnel
droit constitutionnel
droit politique
légitimité démocratique
institutions démocratiques
organisations et pouvoir
5e République française
primauté du droit
Etat de droit et démocratie
Domaines
Science politique
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