Journal of South Pacific Law

THE ELEVATION AND ISOLATION OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL STATUS OF NEW CALEDONIA: A CASE STUDY OF FRENCH INTERIM CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM

 

Guillaume P. Blanc*

 

Introduction

 

Constitutional reform is very often needed in order to adapt constitutional rules which govern the distribution or decentralization of powers between different federal and federate entities in federal countries. However, the relationship between constitutional reform and decentralization is not only relevant to federal countries. It can also be relevant to unified or centralized countries which do not have a constitutional federal status, such as France, where sovereign executive as well as legislative powers can be shared between the French central state and the French overseas dependencies.

 

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