État légal

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État légal is an expression of the French legal language . According to Helmut Ridder , the term describes the "state '' occupied by the bourgeois society that presents and legalizes itself in parliament. Unlike in the context of a so-called “material” understanding of the rule of law , no court “ever thought of decimating and disavowing the applicable laws with the help of a 'principle' of 'état légal'."

The expression expresses the legicentristic tradition that the French legal thought - starting u. a. von Rousseau - for a long time dominated the term: In France, “law” represented “like no other term the belief in the comprehensive creative power of human reason. If there was a conception capable of reaching consensus in France during the Enlightenment, then it is that of the law, with whose help, and only with whose help, the restructuring of society, law, politics, etc. can be carried out. "

In recent decades, however, there has also been a more activist jurisprudence of the French Constitutional Council in France and the displacement of the term état légal by the loan translation état de droit (constitutional state) from German.

literature

  • Ellen Meiksins Wood: Britain vs. France: How many. Sonderweg, in: Detlef Georgia Schulze / Sabine Berghahn / Frieder Otto Wolf (eds.), Rule of law instead of revolution, juridification instead of democracy? Transdisciplinary analyzes on the German and Spanish path to modernity (StaR P. New analyzes on state, law and politics. Series A. Vol. 2), Westfälisches Dampfboot: Münster 2010, 82 - 97 (87 - 90: Section Rule of Law and État légal )

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Helmut Ridder: The social order of the Basic Law. Guide to the Fundamental Rights of a Democratic Constitution, 1975, 147 = ders., Gesammelte Schriften ed. by Dieter Deiseroth / Peter Derleder / Christoph Koch / Frank-Walter Steinmeier , Nomos: Baden-Baden, 2010, 7 - 190 (179).
  2. ↑ See Helmuth Schulze-Fielitz, [commentary on] Art. 20 (constitutional state). In: Horst Dreier (ed.): Basic Law. Comment. Vol. 2: Art. 20 - 82, Mohr Siebeck: Tübingen 1998, pp. 128 - 209 (133, RN 7) = 2nd edition: 2006 (178, RN 7) (“In France is under the influence of Rousseau the emphasis is more on theories of rule through laws of the democratic majority. ”) and Antonio-Carlos Pereira Menaut, Rule of law o Estado de Derecho , Marcial Pons: Madrid, 2003, 86 (“ […] en Francia […] en vez de primacy of law o sumisión 'a la ley y al Derecho' hay primauté de la loi . "/" [...] in France [...] instead of a primacy of law or obedience to law and justice 'is entered Primacy of the law . ”(Own practice).
  3. ↑ Wolfgang Schmale: The natural law in France between Prerevolution and Terreur. in: Otto Dann / Diethelm Klippel, Natural Law - Late Enlightenment - Revolution. Meiner, Hamburg 1995, pp. 5-22 (19).
  4. ^ Cf. Constance Grewe, Grundrechte und their Kontroll in Frankreich. - Fundamentals and current developments - , in: European Fundamental Rights Journal 2002, 209 - 212, 209, 211 and Danièle Loschak, Der Verfassungsrat - Guardian of Fundamental Rights , in: Demokratie und Recht 1982, 50, 52 - 60 (with preliminary editorial note on p. 50-52) (French first publication: Le Conseil constitutionnel protecteur des libertés?, In: pouvoirs No. 13, 1980, 35-47).