TITLE V
OF THE RELATIONS BETWEEN THE EXECUTIVE POWER AND THE
LEGISLATIVE POWER
Article 71
The National Assembly holds the legislative power. It alone votes the law. The law
establishes the rules concerning:
— citizenship, the civic rights and the fundamental guarantees granted to the citizens for the
exercise of the public liberties;
— nationality, the state and the capacity of persons, the matrimonial regimes, inheritance and
gifts;
— the procedure according to which customs will be established and harmonized with the
fundamental principles of the Constitution;
— the determination of crimes and misdemeanors as well as the penalties which are
applicable to them, the penal procedure, [and] amnesty;
— the organization of judicial and administrative tribunals and the procedure to be followed
before these Jurisdictions;
— the Statute of the magistrates, of the ministerial officers and of the auxiliaries of Justice;
— the General Statute of the Public Function;
— the Statute of the Prefectoral Corps;
— the Statute of the Diplomatic Corps;
— the Statute of the personnel of the Local Collectivities;
— the Statute of the Military Function;
— the Statute of personnel of the National Police;
— the bases, rate and modalities of collection of taxes of all kinds;
— the regime of the issuance of currency;
— the electoral regime of the National Assembly and of the Local Assemblies;
— the creation of categories of Public Establishments;
— the state of siege and the state of urgency.
The law determines the fundamental principles: