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Thierry Lentz: "Public power without power, public service without service"

2023-03-09T19:04:47.988Z


TRIBUNE - The French State appears more and more inefficient and powerless both in terms of public order and in providing the services for which it is responsible, notes the historian, director of the Fondation Napoléon.


The French state is in danger.

The conquering European Union, the thoughtless decentralization and the judges with the released rein are the essential actors of this systemic deconstruction of a work started in the XIIth century by Philippe Auguste and completed under the Republics of the XIXth and XXth centuries.

All those who have done a bit of public law remember the debate which opposed, at the beginning of the last century, the proponents of public power and those of public service, to qualify the dominant principle of State action.

Two schools, called "Toulouse" with Maurice Hauriou as founding father and "Bordeaux" led by Léon Duguit, animated these two parts of the doctrine for decades to ultimately end in a jurisprudential draw.

To simplify, the state was sometimes a power, sometimes a service.

For as in love, one might say, there is no state unless there is a proof of state, and this has adapted to the circumstances, the needs and the tolerance of...

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Source: lefigaro

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