Geiger, Sarah Author aut Rodriguez, Pierre-Emmanuel Author aut Text xx# 2023 Verfassungsblog 2023-10-11 eng

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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 Geiger, Sarah Autonomy Corsica France Independence Republicanism 342 https://verfassungsblog.de/the-french-republics-indivisibility/ 2366-7044 Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH 10.59704/3498a15387e4be57 231011 10.59704/3498a15387e4be57 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.7 using MARC21slim2MODS3-7.xsl (Revision 1.140 20200717)