Any pleader [plaideur] can raise the exception of unconstitutionality of a law before any jurisdiction. The conditions for seizing the Constitutional Council are determined by law. Article 97 The Bills or proposals of law and the Bills of ordinances can be submitted for [the] advice of the Constitutional Council. Article 98 The decisions of he Constitutional Council are not susceptible to any recourse. The [are] imposed on the public powers, on every administrative, jurisdictional, [and] military authority and on every physical and moral person. Article 99 A provision declared contrary to the Constitution cannot be promulgated or put into application. Article 100 The organic law determines the rules and organization and functioning of the Constitutional Council, the procedure and the time periods in which it has to decide. TITLE VIII OF THE JUDICIAL POWER Article 101 The judicial power is independent of the executive power and of the legislative power. Article 102 Justice is rendered on the whole extent of the national territory in the name of the people, by the Supreme Jurisdictions: Court of Cassation, Council of State, Court of Accounts, and by the Courts of Appeal and the tribunals. The organic laws establish the composition, the organization and the functioning of these jurisdictions. Article 103 The magistrates are only submitted, in the exercise of their functions, to the authority of the law. The magistrates of the Bench [Sièges] are irremovable. Article 104 The President of the Republic is the guarantor of the independence of the magistrature. He presides over the Superior Council of the Magistrature. Article 105

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