Constitution of 1852

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The Constitution of 1852 was the fundamental law that established and structured the authoritarian regime of Napoleon III during the Second French Empire.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf constitution
fundamental law
abolishedInYear 1870
appliesTo Second Empire of France
surface form: Second French Empire
branch executive branch
judicial branch
legislative branch
cameAfterEvent coup d’état of 2 December 1851
characterizedBy limited civil liberties
strong executive power
weak parliamentary control
country France
createdBody Corps législatif
Council of State
Senate
createdOffice Emperor of the French
surface form: Emperor of the French (as constitutional office)
dateAdopted 1852-01-14
definedSuffrage universal male suffrage (formally)
endedWithEvent fall of the Second French Empire
establishedRegimeOf Napoleon III of France
surface form: Napoleon III
followedBy French Third Republic constitution
surface form: French Constitutional Laws of 1875
governmentForm imperial regime
grantedPowersTo Emperor
headOfState Napoleon III of France
surface form: Napoleon III
headOfStateTitle Emperor of the French
historicalPeriod Second Empire of France
surface form: Second French Empire
ideologyAssociated Bonapartism
language French
legalBasisFor Second Empire of France
surface form: Second French Empire
legalNature authoritarian constitution
legalSystem civil law
limitedPowersOf legislative bodies
politicalSystem authoritarian regime
precededBy French Constitution of 1848
promulgatedBy Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte
Napoleon III of France
surface form: Napoleon III
providedFor plebiscites
restrictedRoleOf parliament
status abolished
strengthenedRoleOf executive branch
subjectMatter organization of public powers
relations between Emperor and legislature
rights and duties of citizens
territorialScope French colonial empire
Metropolitan France
surface form: metropolitan France
tookEffectOn 1852-01-14
typeOfState unitary state

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Second Empire of France constitutionalInstrument Constitution of 1852
subject surface form: Second French Empire
Constitution of 4 November 1848 precedes Constitution of 1852
this entity surface form: Constitution of 14 January 1852
Empereur des Français constitutionalBasis Constitution of 1852
Senate of the Second Empire legalBasis Constitution of 1852
Sénat constitutionalInstrument Constitution of 1852
subject surface form: Sénat (Second French Empire)
this entity surface form: Constitution of 14 January 1852
French Constitution of 1848 followedBy Constitution of 1852
this entity surface form: French Constitution of 1852