De Gaulle’s new constitution shifted power from parliament to a national leader

Evidence

“I considered it necessary”, declared de Gaulle, “for the government to derive not from parliament, in other words from the parties, but, over and above them, from a leader directly mandated by the nation as a whole and empowered to choose, to decide and to act”. The executive would emerge immeasurably strengthened, with many of the weaknesses that had been the undoing of the Third and Fourth Republics purged from the body politic. — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 954

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the French Revolution’s fraught relationship between national mandate and representative assemblies — a throughline the reader wants. — connects to: The regime sought to amend the constitution to make parliament pliant; De Gaulle’s crisis leadership won him renewed special powers — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1139; De Gaulle’s delay on Algeria stemmed from overhauling France’s whole system — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 954

Related

• The regime sought to amend the constitution to make parliament pliant (similarity 0.92)
• De Gaulle restructured Algerian governance into a two-tier hierarchy to tighten control. (similarity 0.84)
• De Gaulle’s delay on Algeria stemmed from overhauling France’s whole system (similarity 0.84)
• De Gaulle’s crisis leadership won him renewed special powers (similarity 0.83)
• De Gaulle’s allies saw Algeria as subordinate to the French state’s crisis (similarity 0.83)
• De Gaulle was willing to shed blood to preserve the state (similarity 0.81)
• Parliamentary instability at home drove plotting for de Gaulle’s return. (similarity 0.80)
• France’s Algerian military dominance coexisted with its political weakness at home (similarity 0.79)
• De Gaulle’s Algerian programme initially resembled previous policy (similarity 0.79)
• De Gaulle’s programme of June 1958 resembled Lacoste’s discarded loi-cadre with added impetus (similarity 0.79)
• De Gaulle symbolically asserted civilian control over the military in Algeria (similarity 0.79)
• Algeria was only one element of de Gaulle’s larger ambitions. (similarity 0.78)
• President Coty’s threat to resign broke the impasse for de Gaulle’s return. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• De Gaulle’s crisis leadership won him renewed special powers #complicates (0.60) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 1139
• De Gaulle’s delay on Algeria stemmed from overhauling France’s whole system #expands (0.55) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 954