The regime sought to amend the constitution to make parliament pliant

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 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: De Gaulle’s new constitution shifted power from parliament to a national leader — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 954; Mussolini bypassed parliament via decree powers for fiscal policy — Clara E. Mattei, The Capital Order: How Economists…, 1700

Related

• De Gaulle’s new constitution shifted power from parliament to a national leader (similarity 0.92)
• De Gaulle restructured Algerian governance into a two-tier hierarchy to tighten control. (similarity 0.79)
• De Gaulle’s delay on Algeria stemmed from overhauling France’s whole system (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• De Gaulle’s new constitution shifted power from parliament to a national leader #corroborates (0.55) — Horne, Alistair, A Savage War of Peace- Algeria 1954-1962, 954