The Study For The Influence Of The French Revolution On The Constitution In France

France was not a country with a stable and complete legal system on the Middle Ages.Many laws,such as customary law,statutory law,ecclesiastical law,and Roman law,were applied in different scopes of the country.The Christian church of France also had legislative,judicial power,and even influenced the political power of the secular society;the French Nobles also had the power to formulate laws within their territories,and the central statutes were often effectively implemented only in the royal sphere.In order to achieve a complete and effective rule of the country,the king constantly weakened the power of the church and aristocracy in his rule and promoted centralized rule.The Bourbon dynasty was a period of absolute monarchy.The king’s power gradually increased,and by the time of Louis XIV,the monarchy had reached its peak.The king weakened the power of the aristocracy,separated the French church from the Holy See,and the church was under the supervision of secular power.The king successively introduced several codes,which basically unified the application of laws in the territory.During the reign of Louis XVI,the governors of the provinces became the king’s spokesperson,and the third-level meeting could not control the king’s opinion and stopped for a long time.Prior to the Revolution,the hierarchical system under the old system made ordinary farmers belonging to the third level of France bear heavy taxes,while nobles and priests enjoyed tax-free treatment.This tax system and tax package system reduced French financial sources and income,coupled with the luxury life of the royal family and the redundancy of official institutions,and the French government failed to make ends meet with a serious economic crisis.Louis XVI’s appointment minister failed to solve this problem through fiscal reforms.He hoped that the re-opening of the thirdlevel meeting would achieve the purpose of increasing taxes to the third level.This measure was opposed by the bourgeoisie and became France.The immediate cause of the Revolution.After the bourgeois revolution,the revolutionaries took the lead in issuing the "Declaration of Human Rights" to empower the citizens,and established the principles of equality and decentralization before the law in accordance with the legal thoughts of Rousseau and others in the Enlightenment.Most importantly,in the early days of the French Revolution,the old hierarchical system and feudal legal system were overthrown and a constitution was formulated,which established the embryonic form of a modern national legal system.During the French Revolution,although the Jacobin,Gironde,Napoleon,and other governors successively ruled different political opinions,the French politic system has been repeated between monarchy and republic since the revolution.France does not have a stable constitution that can be applied for a long time.The spirit is inherited by the French Constitution.In order to prevent frequent changes in the state system and laws after the war,a Constitutional Committee was established to regulate administrative power and ensure the constitutionality of implementing laws.Of course,the Revolution not only affected the French Constitution,put France in a leading position in recent centuries,but also affected the French governance model.The party system is inherited from the revolution and operates well in the supervision of the law,which has stimulated people’s enthusiasm for political participation.The Constitutional Committee and the Administrative Court can effectively improve administrative efficiency and guarantee the operation of a limited democratic government.More importantly,the revolution brought the French people a tradition of participating in politics.The principle of the supremacy of the Constitution is engraved in the hearts of every citizen,and France continues to advance on the road to the rule of law.