Editing Parlement (section)

==Abolition==
[[File:Suppression des Parlements.jpg|thumb|''The Abolition of the Parliaments'', 1790 print]]
The parlements were abolished by the [[National Constituent Assembly (France)|National Constituent Assembly]] on 6 September 1790. The behavior of the parlements is one of the reasons that since the [[French Revolution]], French courts have been forbidden by Article 5 of the [[Napoleonic code|French civil code]] to create law and act as legislative bodies, their only mandate being to interpret the law.  France, through the Napoleonic Code, was at the origin of the modern system of [[civil law (legal system)|civil law]], in which precedents are not as powerful as in countries of [[common law]]. The origin of the separation of powers in the French court system, with no [[stare decisis|rule of precedent]] outside the interpretation of the law, no single supreme court and no constitutional review of statutes by courts until 1971 (by action, before the [[Constitutional Council of France]] created in 1958) and 2010 (by exception, before any court)<ref>The control of conventionality according to the [[European Convention on Human Rights]] was introduced in 1975 and 1989, respectively for judiciary and administrative courts.</ref> is usually traced to that hostility towards "government by judges".<ref>Michael H. Davis, ''The Law/Politics Distinction, the French Conseil Constitutionnel, and the [[Supreme Court of the United States|U. S. Supreme Court]]'', The American Journal of Comparative Law, Vol. 34, No. 1 (Winter, 1986), [https://www.jstor.org/stable/840292 pp. 45–92]</ref><ref>James Beardsley, ''Constitutional Review in France'', The Supreme Court Review, Vol. 1975, (1975), [https://www.jstor.org/stable/3108812 pp. 189-259]</ref><ref>Denis Tallon, John N. Hazard, George A. Bermann, ''The Constitution and the Courts in France'', The American Journal of Comparative Law, Vol. 27, No. 4 (Autumn, 1979), [https://www.jstor.org/stable/839794 pp. 567–587]</ref>