Articles 73 or 74?

A ssociation for R V erdimornaise eConstruction P ERITAGE.

Dear Verdimornaises,

Dear Verdimornais,

Hello,

We can safely say that the Caribbean have suffered for three centuries several institutional reforms constructively without improving the lives of West Indians.

There are many causes as social, cultural, economic and sometimes cyclical. This is compounded by an aging elite who can no longer bring the ancient culture with the obligations and requirements of modern life. When we add to this the current financial crisis born of a moral degeneration one understands the distress of our fellow citizens.

Stroll through the trails of our local institutions in the three centuries:

1624-1642 - Company chartered under Richelieu - Slavery - Operations.

1635 - The French occupy Martinique. On February 12, 1635 the Company of America Islands government and administered in a mercantile, commercial.

1635-1685 - Development of the infamous Black Code tidying the negroes among the furniture of the property. In other words, they were not considered human beings.

1685 - Promulgation of the Code Black.

The administration will be assigned later to the Lords-proprietors and attached to the Crown in 1674.

17 ^th and 18 ^th century - The royal power, but affirmed the centrality of unifying the monarchy is inadequate to countries as distant and inhuman way of life. There is already talk of independence for directors.

Soon become ubiquitous military institutions to ensure the authority and the successful agricultural business industry and trade but not human.

1789 - France is in turmoil - The revolution is triggered - The administration of Martinique is entrusted to a Governor and an Intendant assisted by a Court and a Supreme Council or Superior.

August 30, 1789 - Revolt of the slaves in Saint-Pierre.

26 to 28 October 1793 - Erection of Martinique in the department divided into four districts.

February 1794 - Decree abolishing slavery

March 23, 1794 - The Martinique came under English rule, slavery continues.

1794-1802 - British Occupation - Restoration - Institutions colonial orders.

1804-1814 - The Empire

1833-1837 - The colonial institutions - Reforms.

March 4, 1848 - Decree abolishing slavery.

1852-1870 - Second Empire. The senatusconsulta.

1885 - The republican institutions.

July 10, 1940 - Constitutional Act No. 1: Marshal Petain becomes head of the French State.

The Republic of Martinique is cleared and bows before the Constitutional Acts: measures relating to the municipal government, the sessions of the General Council, an institution of local councils ...

Constitution of 1946. France takes over the Republican Institutions and Martinique as well.

Departmentalization / Assimilation. The Act of March 19, 1946 passed unanimously by the National Constituent Assembly makes it French departments: Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Martinique and Reunion.

Autonomy / August 1955 The Communist Party which had asked the departmentalization (Bissol, Césaire), facing the new challenges that presented themselves not hesitate to assert autonomy, soon joined by Progressive Party (First convention of pro-autonomy August 1971 - Morne-Rouge).

This short walk is just a glimpse, of inconstancy, instability in the price of institutional reforms implemented to date in Martinique.

By the way, what is autonomy?

For most of Martinique (his) is a dangerous term to see yours. Yet autonomy is not specifically a legal term but a political one.

You can have as much autonomy as you want because the very essence lies in the skills that will be given by the government, Congress or the Assembly. When is a department of Martinique as it does not autonomy, is the request through the skills, responsibilities that would ensure. And that the French state after deliberation in the assembly that accepts or denies or limits in the form and substance the powers that may wish to grant, according to the Constitution and always reserving a right of inspection control or even suppression of the skills.

The Act of March 19, 1946 erected Martinique in the French department at the request of parliamentarians Martinique and no one can repeal it, delete it without the will of the people of Martinique. A point is all.

Rest assured, the articles of the Constitution are securely locked and the government yesterday. For now the majority of the population of Martinique knows what she wants: its place and its place in the French and European Union in order to be fulfilled.

Articles 73 and 74 were inserted, introduced into the Constitution to allow a better adaptation of the law according to the needs of Martinique.

The portion of section 73 to section 74 is reversible. You can switch from 73 to 74 and if you do not like to go back to 73.

But we are not children and adolescents are more and if we believe we adults think of taking the necessary time and make a correct choice.

At the institutional point of view of Article 74 has an advantage: it allows us to move more quickly and correctly. But all the advantages resulting disadvantages.

In short it will never be the item that is at fault but those who will administer it, practice it.

And here we Martinique, 73 or 74, we will have a tremendous job to do: improve ourselves.

We will miss him sometimes analytical face new situations, a focus on integrity to guide us and practice for technological development and cultural entity.

So far we have can be worked on standards already exceeded both political and institutional.

Recycling, redeployment, retraining will be necessary and sufficient to that that we should give up.

We will have a new non Martinique Martinique but a new, must hinge between Europe and America and for all is to remake or revise education, instruction, training, culture, research in all areas of human and social .

Anything is possible. New generations are already knocking at our doors. All they need that the place they deserve and that sense of duty, will, this fearlessness that allowed our ancestors to traverse history by all odds, and allow us to be who we are, beings capable of understanding and acting.

In summary, the real issue that concerns us is not in articles 73 or 74 but in the choice of a single Assembly to avoid a waste of energy in the validity, power skills that we need to finally take enable the empowerment of the people of Martinique, its evolution after three centuries of enslavement, subjugation.

See you soon.

For avrp

The President

Henri Lecurieux - LAFAYETTE