Constitution of France

The current Constitution of France was adopted on 4 October 1958. It is typically called the Constitution of the Fifth Republic (French: Constitution de la Ve République), and it replaced the Constitution of the Fourth Republic of 1946 with the exception of the preamble per a Constitutional Council decision in July 1971.[1]^{[dead link]}[2] The current Constitution regards the separation of church and state, democracy, social welfare, and indivisibility as core principles of the French state.[3]^{[non-primary source needed]}

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Constitution of France
Constitution of France (1958)
Overview
Original title	(in French) Constitution française du 4 octobre 1958
Jurisdiction	France
Ratified	28 September 1958; 65 years ago (1958-09-28)
Date effective	4 October 1958; 64 years ago (1958-10-04)
System	Unitary semi-presidential republic
Government structure
Branches	Three (executive, legislative and judiciary)
Chambers	Two (Senate and National Assembly)
Executive	President-led Council of Ministers responsible to the National Assembly; Prime minister as head of government
Judiciary	High Court is established for presidential Impeachment purposes; an extra-judicial body, the Constitutional Council, reviews the constitutionality of laws; no other part of the court system is referenced.
Federalism	Unitary
Electoral college	No, but senate elections mandated to be indirect
Last amended	2009
Supersedes	French Constitution of 1946
Full text
Constitution of the Fifth French Republic at Wikisource
Wikisource
French Constitution of October 4th, 1958 (1960)

Politics of France
Constitutions Fifth Republic Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
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Charles de Gaulle was the main driving force in introducing the new constitution and inaugurating the Fifth Republic, while the text was drafted by Michel Debré. Since then, the constitution has been amended twenty-four times, through 2008.[4]