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To increase the powers of the Constitutional Council was one of the most important amendments to the constitution, proposed by the committee on the modernization and rebalancing of the institutions of the Fifth Republic. The functions of the Council had to be considerably extended, and its role in the review of constitutionality of law deeply modified. The committee's proposed new wording of Article...