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Show Constitutional Council decisions beside the law

Source-linked Council notes add another part of the context needed to read a law’s status.

The reader’s problem

An amendment history is not the only context that can affect how a law should be read.

What changed

The Council-note work added source-linked Constitutional Council decisions to relevant law and article pages. It provided a place to record an annulment or a finding about a text's legal force without presenting that event as an ordinary legislative amendment.

Using the feature

Read the note together with the Council's own publication. The decision date, affected provisions and actual outcome matter. A short explanation helps locate the issue, but the operative wording and reasons remain in the linked source.

Reading the evidence

The initial records cover particular decisions, not a complete Council archive. An English explanation is unofficial. A missing note does not establish that no constitutional challenge exists, and a note should not be expanded into claims about provisions or consequences that the underlying decision does not support.

Sources

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