French republicanism

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French republicanism is a political tradition in France that emphasizes popular sovereignty, secularism (laïcité), civic virtue, and equality under a unitary, indivisible republic.


Statements (51)
Predicate Object
instanceOf political ideology
political tradition
associatedWith French Radical Party
French Revolution
French Socialist Party
Gaullism
radicalism in France
contrastsWith multiculturalism
coreConcept citizenship
general will
laïcité
national sovereignty
republican virtue
countryOfOrigin France
emphasizes civic virtue
equality
laïcité
popular sovereignty
secularism
historicalPhase anticlerical republicanism
liberal republicanism
social republicanism
influencedBy Enlightenment
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Montesquieu
classical republicanism
influences French citizenship law
French education policy
French party system
French secularism policy
keyValue meritocracy
universalism
languageOfExpression French
legalFoundation French Constitution of 1958
legalPrinciple democracy
equality before the law
indivisibility of the Republic
laïcité of the state
social state
linkedTo French Fifth Republic
French First Republic
French Fourth Republic
French Second Republic
French Third Republic
opposes clericalism
feudal privileges
monarchy
promotes assimilationist model of integration
slogan Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité
supportsFormOfState indivisible republic
unitary republic

Referenced by (1)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
Seal of the French Republic
associatedConcept

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