Six hundred students wrote the same thing: articles, limits, the censure motion.
Claire wrote in the margin: “You turned the text into a living thing. That is the essence of constitutionalism. You passed. But more importantly, you understood.” droit constitutionnel l1
Not a court, but a watchmaker. In 1958, it was a sleeping guard. Then, in 1971, it woke up. It declared that the Preamble of the 1946 Constitution and the 1789 Declaration of Human Rights were not old wallpaper. They were the gears inside the machine. Suddenly, the bloc de constitutionnalité expanded. Liberty, equality, fraternity became justiciable. You could sue a law for being unkind. Six hundred students wrote the same thing: articles,