nam 22 uu 4500 10.59704/3498a15387e4be57 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 231011s2023||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.59704/3498a15387e4be57 doi eng 342 23 Geiger, Sarah Author aut The French Republic’s (In)Divisibility - Some Thoughts on Corsican Autonomy Geiger, Sarah Verfassungsblog 2023-10-11 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier On Thursday 28 September 2023, French President Emmanuel Macron called, in front of the Corsican Assembly, for Corsica to be given ‘autonomy within the Republic’. The French government and Corsican elected representatives have six months to produce a text which, if approved by the Corsican Assembly, will serve as the basis for an amendment to the French Constitution. Nonetheless, the political reactivation of an old constitutional principle might get in the way. In particular, conservative parliamentarians can be expected to invoke the principle of the indivisibility of the Republic in the constitutional amendment process. Despite the principle’s long-standing presence in republican constitutional history, we argue that it cannot serve as a constitutional argument against Corsican autonomy, both because the Constitution allows amendments despite contradictory principles and because it has always tolerated a certain degree of divisibility. CC BY-SA 4.0 Autonomy Corsica France Independence Republicanism Rodriguez, Pierre-Emmanuel Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-french-republics-indivisibility/ raw object