French Constitutional Law of 1940

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The French Constitutional Law of 1940 is a set of bills that were voted into law on 10 July 1940 by the

Although given full constituent powers by the law, Pétain never promulgated a new constitution. A draft was written in 1941 and signed by Pétain in 1944, but it was never submitted or ratified.[3]^[4]

The

Application

On the basis of this act, Marshal Pétain progressively instituted a new regime through a dozen constitutional acts issued between 1940 and 1942. However, a new Constitution was never declared. In positive law, although these acts put a de facto end to the Third Republic, the act of July 10, 1940, as well as all the constitutional acts taken in its application, were declared null and void in 1944, as the regime had never lawfully existed.

Timeline of French constitutions

See also

• Constitutional Council (France)
• French constitutional laws of 1875
• Constitutional law of 2 November 1945
• Tréveneuc law

References