Szczególny status francuskiej Rady Stanu
Special Status of the French Council of State

Summary/Abstract: The Council of State is a body that is a permanent element of the political system of the French Republic. Its genesis dates back to the Consular period. The Council of State, despite numerous and serious political transformations in France over the last two hundred years, has gained authority and contributed to the stability of the concept of strong protection of individual rights. The important role of the Council of State resulted not only from legal changes (here, the Act of 1872, as a result of which the Council gained jurisdictional independence, was of crucial importance); its jurisprudence has also played an extremely important role. The Council gave special importance to many statutory freedoms and rights by referring to the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen of 1789. Today, the Council of State protects the constitutional order by performing two main functions: it is the consultative body for government law projects and regulatory acts and the highest administrative judiciary body. However, in order to understand what role this body plays nowadays, it is necessary to refer to the genesis of its creation, because it corresponds to the consolidation of republican ideas in France. On the margin of the main considerations of this study, it is worth recalling that in the interwar period in Poland, numerous projects were put forward to create a Council of State on the French model. Awareness of the role of this body was very significant in the legal and scientific circles of that period. It was considered that the Council, consisting of eminent lawyers, should primarily give opinions on draft legal acts and thus contribute to shaping better law by political centers of power. The submitted postulates, some of which took the form of specific projects, were never implemented. The French Council of State has a special status today, which is the result of its authority, achievements, and the specificity of the organization and its work. The dominant research methods that have been used are the dogmatic-legal method and the historical-legal method.

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