¶ … French Government, State, and Regime: An Overview
Vive le Difference! The French phrase, 'long live the distinction or difference,' was coined to celebrate the supposedly innate difference between men and women. These differences were supposed to created a sense of positive tension and excitement between the opposite sexes. However, there is a profound sense between not only the United States, but also the French and many of their European national counterparts, that there is also a substantial cultural, political, and economic 'difference' between France and even her closest allies. And neither France nor America nor the European Union necessarily wants such 'differences' to exist in their current form, as the current century of economic globalization unfolds.
To examine why this is so, it is worth examining how the current structures and operations of the French government, function, how and, when and why (or if) they work to further the aims of the French populace, as well as their impact upon past French culture and life, in everything from language to food to cinema. Currently, the French government is part of a multi-party system and parliamentary and democratic in nature. This means that the French people elect representatives for particular districts to national as well as local office. The national majority party then elects a leader, called the prime minister. The French state is governed by a constitution, which, according to Guy Carcassonne, has one explicitly articulated principle (as opposed to organizational protocols) and one only. This principle is "set forth in the fifth line of article 2 of the Constitution and directly borrowed from Lincoln," in other words, that it is a "government of the people, by the people and for the people." (Carcassonne 2002)
But despite this explicit borrowing from the relatively young land of America's words of freedom, France was until recently largely known for her centralizing tradition in governance. (Phillip 2001) "France was a country where decisions were basically taken in Paris and implemented throughout the country by state-appointed representatives." (Phillip 2001) Localities served the national state, rather than vice versa. There are three officially...
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