2024
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Marcel Morabito et al., « Teaching constitutional history in France: challenges and prospects », HAL SHS (Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société), ID : 10670/1.3a2ea8...
This article presents the challenges and prospects of teaching constitutional history in France. It answers two main questions: how and why should constitutional history be taught? The article first looks at the teaching method, through the wealth of tools available – the disciplinary fields on which it depends, on the one hand, the study material and teaching methods on the other – and the diversity of objectives, i.e., the material field – spatial and temporal – of constitutional history. It then analyses the value of constitutional history for its target audience, its public. The authors emphasise that constitutional history is a pedagogical tool useful for the civic culture of every citizen, a heuristic and epistemological instrument for legal students and practitioners, but that it also has a symbolic, empirical and hermeneutic role for public actors, mainly civil servants, elected officials and judges.