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3 Colum. J. Eur. L. 49 (1996-1998)
Law, History, and Memory: "Republican Moments" and the Legitimacy of Constitutional Review in France

handle is hein.journals/coljeul3 and id is 55 raw text is: LAW, HISTORY, AND MEMORY: REPUBLICAN MOMENTS AND THE LEGITIMACY OF CONSTITUTIONAL REVIEW IN FRANCE Peter L. Lindseth* TABLE OF CONTENTS I. Introduction ................................................................ 50 II. Theoretical Considerations in Comparative Constitutional Law .... 55 A. Dualist Democracy and Constitutional Moments in American H istory ............................................................... 55 B. Republican Moments as the French Analogue .............. 56 C. Law as Historical Memory ........................................ 57 I. Freedom of Association and the Memory of Republican Moments 59 A. The Constitutional Council's Decision of July 16, 1971 ...... 59 B. In View of the Law of July 1, 1901: The Memory of the Dreyfus Affair and Republican Defense . .................... 61 1. From the Monarchist to the Radical Republic ............ 61 2. The Reactionary Legacy of Nineteenth-Century Legislation ..................................................... 62 3. Freedom of Association and the Goverment of Ren6 Waldeck-Rousseau ............................................ 63 C. In View of the Law of January 10, 1936: The Memory of the Popular Front and the Fascist Threat ....................... 64 1. The Breakdown of the Republican Synthesis in the 1930s ........................................................... 64 2. Republican Defense and Administrative Dissolution of Private M ilitia ................................................. 65 D. Les principes fondamentaux reconnus par les lois de la Ripublique: Memories of the Liberation and National Reconciliation ....................................................... 66 1. Republican Legality, Human Rights and the Implicit Rejection of Legislative Supremacy ....................... 66 2. The Conservative Reconciliation with the Republic ..... 68 3. The Recognition of the principes fondamentaux as a Source of Controlling Constitutional Norms .............. 69 * Associate in Law, Columbia University School of Law. B.A., J.D., Cornell; M.A., M.Phil., Ph.D. candidate (history), Columbia; research fellow, French Conseil d'tat, 1994-95. I would like to thank George Bermann and Louis Henkin for their extensive comments on earlier drafts of this article.

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