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  French Fifth Republic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Fifth Republic is the fifth and current republican constitution of France, which was introduced on October 5, 1958.
The Fifth Republic emerged from the ashes of the French Fourth Republic, replacing a weak and factional parliamentary government with a stronger, more centralized democracy.
Given the runoff voting system used in the presidential election, the president of the Republic has a high legitimacy, since he has to obtain a majority at either the first or second round of elections.
www.secaucus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Fifth_Republic   (364 words)

  
 French Fifth Republic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Fifth Republic emerged from the ashes of the French Fourth Republic, replacing a weak and factional parliamentary government with a stronger, more centralized semi-presidential system.
Given the runoff voting system used in the presidential election, the president of the Republic has a high degree of legitimacy, since he has to obtain a majority at either the first or second round of elections.
The Fifth Republic, with a president with significant official functions and a great political clout, is sometimes criticized as being "monarchic".
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/French_Fifth_Republic   (432 words)

  
 Embassy of France in the US - France's History
Constitution of the Fifth Republic adopted by referendum (28 September 1958).
Constitutional amendment introduces election of the President of the Republic by direct universal suffrage (referendum of 28 October 1962).
Jacques Chirac is re-elected President of the Republic and appoints Jean-Pierre Raffarin as Prime Minister.
www.info-france-usa.org /atoz/history.asp   (602 words)

  
 French Fourth Republic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
France adopted the constitution of the Fourth Republic on October 13, 1946.
The instability and ineffectiveness problems of the Fourth Republic came to a head in 1958 because of the Algerian War, which pitted Algerian colonists, the army, and the far right, against the left and those who wanted peace.
These changes were introduced and the Fifth Republic was born.
www.secaucus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/French_Fourth_Republic   (277 words)

  
 Excerpts from the Constitution of the Fifth French Republic
The President of the Republic may, after consultation with the Prime Minister and the Presidents of the Assemblies, declare the dissolution of the National Assembly.
The President of the Republic shall be commander of the armed forces.
Three of its members shall be appointed by the President of the Republic, three by the President of the National Assembly, three by the President of the Senate.
www.uiowa.edu /~c030040/frconst.htm   (1188 words)

  
 The Fifth Republic (from Korea, South) --  Encyclopædia Britannica
The country is bordered by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) to the north, the East Sea (Sea of Japan) to the east, the East China Sea to the south, and the Yellow Sea to the west; to the southeast it is separated from the Japanese island of Tsushima by the Korea Strait.
The country is bordered by China and Russia to the north and by the Republic of Korea (South Korea) to the south.
A republic of northeastern Asia on the southern half of the peninsula of Korea, the Republic of Korea (South Korea) borders the Sea of Japan, the Korea Strait, the Yellow Sea, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea at roughly the 38th parallel.
www.britannica.com /eb/article-34994   (1045 words)

  
 MSN Encarta - Multimedia - French Presidents and Prime Ministers of the Fifth Republic
French Presidents and Prime Ministers of the Fifth Republic
The Fifth Republic of France was formed in 1958 when General Charles de Gaulle oversaw the drafting of a new constitution.
The constitution calls for the direct election of the president, who in turn appoints the prime minister.
encarta.msn.com /media_701500616/table_of_French_Presidents_and_Prime_Ministers.html   (74 words)

  
 Onto
Israel is not a banana republic, Abba Eban once said; it is a country that slips on bananas.
In the Second Republic, the disappointments from Likud and Labor were balanced and engendered the age of rotation.
The Fifth Republic will make possible normalization, for which the subjects of the present regime long more than anything, only if realistic borders are created, excluding the Palestinians.
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 Fifth Republic Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The dominant (music)dominant, and the chord (music)chord built on the dominant, is often simply called the '''fifth''' as it is the fifth scale degree.
It was usually only used as a measure of an amount of alcoholic beveragehard liquor or wine, such as a fifth of vodka or tequila.
"Pleading the Fifth" or "taking the Fifth" means refusing to testify against one's self, a right guaranteed to any accused person by the amendment.
www.echostatic.com /Fifth_Republic.html   (141 words)

  
 Manuel L. Quezon III: The Fifth Republic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The second was the Laurel "republic" of 1943.
The third was the independent republic established in...
The third was the independent republic established in 1946; the fourth, the "new republic" created by Marcos in 1981; the fifth, the republic born of the Edsa revolution.
www.quezon.ph /archives/000060.html   (106 words)

  
 ON TAKING THE FIFTH [Free Republic]
The invoking of the Fifth Amendment by a witness under oath is a serious matter.
If I "take the Fifth" in response to the first question, and the second question is "Did you kill James Hoffa?", my taking the fifth the second time is not an admission of guilt in the death of Mr.
In addition to my previous comments, I see nothing in the Fifth Amendment that limits the protection from being "…compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself" to the US legal system.
www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3a9bc4877099.htm   (2040 words)

  
 Notes on Cabinet instability and the Accumulation of Experience by Huber, John, and Martinez-Gallardo, Cecilia, British ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
On the effect of cabinet stability in the Fourth Republic, the authors cite the dominant interpretation, given by Debré, Duncan MacRae[1] and Ezra Suleiman.
The second theme is that “the problem of instability was solved by the electoral laws and constitution of the Fifth Republic, which is widely hailed for its stable, coherent majorities”.
The authors calculate measures for the Fourth Republic, the Fifth Republic, and each decade of the Fifth Republic, arbitrarily setting experience to 0 at the beginning of each decade to counter for the limited duration of the Fourth Republic.
users.ox.ac.uk /~sann2300/041119-ceg-government-policy-huber.shtml   (1463 words)

  
 Is the constitution of the Fifth Republic a reliable guide to the exercise of power in France?
That is to say, the constitution of the French fifth republic was created with a deliberate intention that it define the new nature of the exercise of power in France.
De Gaulle was not writing a constitution with the sole aim of aiding his rise to power, and his emphasis on the powers of the President was balanced by a similar emphasis of a call for a clear separation of legislature, executive and judicial powers, as well as arguments for a bi-cameral legislature.
On a broader level, the constitution of the Fifth Republic represents, largely through the rights it guarantees, the sources of power within the French nation.
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 Korean Government   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
It was amended in 1952 and 1954 during the First Republic, in 1960 following the Student Revolution, in 1962 and 1972 during the Third Republic, in 1980 during the Fourth Republic, and in 1987 during the Fifth Republic.
The Constitution of the Fifth Republic purportedly aimed at the realization of a genuine democracy guaranteeing social justice and the well-being of all citizens, but in fact it retained the authoritarian character of the Yushin system.
The Constitution of the Sixth Republic, designed to eliminate all vestiges of authoritarianism, was especially significant because it was the first revised constitution to grow out of an agreement between the ruling and opposition parties which participated in its creation.
www.bergen.org /AAST/Projects/Korea/government   (705 words)

  
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Following the establishment of the Á¦5°øÈ­±¹, events moved Fifth Republic quickly.
On Fifth Republic March 3, 1981, Àü ´ëÅë·É office, promising to build a "Great Korea" President Chun in a new era.
The Á¦ 6°øÈ­±¹ was born direct election Sixth Republic out of the need to find a solution to these pressing issues which had grown to crisis proportions.
www.arts.monash.edu.au /korean/korean3/history/backinfo/text5.htm   (177 words)

  
 Bastille day
The Constitution of the Fifth Republic stipulates, in Article 2, that the national emblem shall be the tricolor flag: blue, white and red.
The rooster and the Republic After a period of absence, the Trois Glorieuses of 1830 rehabilitated the image of the rooster, and the Duke of Orleans signed an order providing that the rooster should appear on the flags and uniform buttons of the National Guard.
The Republic is warlike and protective, she will fight for her values, first among which is Liberty, as at Valmy, where she asserted her universal calling in the face of the reactionary monarchists.
www.franceway.com /w3/Facts&Figures/politics/republiquesymbols.html   (2433 words)

  
 Civil Society, Social Movements, and Participation in Venezuela's Fifth Republic
The preamble of the 1999 Constitution of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela states that one of the Constitution’s goals is to establish a participatory democracy achieved through elected representatives, popular votes by referendum, and popular mobilization.
Article 132 states that everyone has the duty to fulfill his or her social responsibilities through participation in the political, civic, and community life of the country with the goal of promoting and protecting human rights as the foundation of democratic coexistence and social peace.
A good many of these groups were active participants in the writing of the Fifth Republic Constitution, but discovered that in the end they were not in agreement with the document or at least not with its interpretation.
www.venezuelanalysis.com /articles.php?artno=1103   (4782 words)

  
 France: Fifth Republic (1959-)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The new Constitution was elaborated by the 39 members (16 from the Assembly, 10 from the Council of the Republic and 13 appointed by the government) of the Comité consultatif constitutionnel.
According to the Constitution, the President of the Republic shall be the defender of the national independence and assume the continuity of the state.
On 12 September 1962, a press release by the Council of Ministers announced a constitutional referendum on the mode of election of the President of the Republic.
www.buschauer.dynip.com /fotw/flags/fr-fiftr.html   (647 words)

  
 France: Finance scandal rocks the Fifth Republic The Méry affair has French politics in a turmoil
The endless and fruitless squabbling about a reform of the constitution is a reflection of the fact that, in the final analysis, it is not possible to resolve the crisis of the political system by means of cosmetic reforms of the Fifth Republic's institutions.
But the Fifth Republic soon found itself in a crisis when the threat of civil war faded, and new, more complex social conflicts emerged.
The established parties are regarded by broad sectors of the population as being the representatives of a greedy minority who only promote their own interests and those of their financial backers and who couldn't care less what happens to society in general.
www.wsws.org /articles/2000/oct2000/fran-o19_prn.shtml   (2659 words)

  
 DOMINICAN REPUBLIC PRESENTS FIFTH PERIODIC REPORT ON EFFORTS TO COMPLY WITH WOMEN’S ANTI-DISCRIMINATION CONVENTION
representation in political life, it was what experts perceived as the Dominican Republic’s permissive attitude towards the illegal sex trade that drew the most concern.
Republic considered sex workers to be workers like any other.
’s fifth periodic report on compliance with the Convention and its Optional Protocol.  She said that her country was committed to gender equality and had been one of the first Latin American countries to ratify the Convention.  Following a brief snapshot of the social and economic situation in the
www.un.org /News/Press/docs/2004/wom1458.doc.htm   (5435 words)

  
 Bilkent News Interactive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Happily, I am here now and I feel a strong sense of history and it is a privilege to be able to see the celebration of a formative event in the history of the 20th Century.
With the Republic we transformed from a congregation into a nation; from subjects to citizens.
Sefa Feza Arslan: To protect the Republic means to ask how to achieve a democratic and a liberating Republic, transforming its people from passive listeners into active decision-makers in a society with peace.
www.bilkent.edu.tr /~Bilnews/issue_5_7/faculty.html   (668 words)

  
 De Gaulle and the Fifth Republic (from France) --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
The unstable ministries of the Fourth Republic were unable to end the Algerian conflict or solve France's economic problems.
It was the direct successor to the Gaullist coalitions, operating under various names over the years, that had dominated the political life of the Fifth Republic under presidents de Gaulle (1958–69) and Georges Pompidou (1969–74).
A republic of western Europe, France includes the island of Corsica in the Mediterranean Sea and has coastlines on the English Channel, the Mediterranean, and the Atlantic Ocean.
www.britannica.com /ebi/article-201153?tocId=201153&ct=   (808 words)

  
 Chronology - Fifth Republic   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Constitution of the Fifth Republic is approved by referendum.
Dissolution of Western and Equatorial French Africa; birth within the Communauté française of the autonomous republics of Mali, Senegal, Gabon, Chad, Congo-Brazzaville, Mauritania, Central Africa, Ivory Coast, Dahomey, and Upper Volta, of Niger and Madagascar.
The Federal Republic of Germany and German Democratic Republic sign a "Basic Treaty" recognizing the independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity of the two states.
www.france.diplomatie.fr /archives.gb/dossiers/140ministres.gb/rep5/chrono.html   (2377 words)

  
 INA: The Fifth Republic : Videos
Pierre Pflimlin is appointed as Prime Minister and French Algeria mobilises to remain under the Republic.
At the Place de la Republic, General de Gaulle announces the referendum for a new constitution, explains the main principles and calls for a massive "YES" vote.
In Algeria, men and women … and also the Tuaregs (a nomad people known as the "Blue men" of the desert) go to the ballot boxes.
www.ina.fr /voir_revoir/vieme_republique/videos.light.en.html   (162 words)

  
 From Fourth to Fifth Republic
In this lecture, on the fall of the Fourth Republic and the birth of Fifth, we will consider France's foreign policy and its relations with other countries, especially those with its colonies.
One of the failures of the Fourth Republic, many have argued, was its inability to cope with the challenges it faced by decolonization.
During the Fifth Republic, the inflation rate was brought down, stability was restored to government (parliament no longer had the power to make and unmake governments) and France sucessfully negotiated its way out of a bloody war of decolonization.
www.sunderland.ac.uk /~os0tmc/contem/fifth.htm   (2205 words)

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