Under the apparent clarity of the texts, the question of real power in Senegal is now expressed as a metaphysical enigma. The Constitution, in its solemnity, invests the President of the Republic in the fullness of the executive; it is the verb that instigates, the will that commands, the gaze that watches. But this legal certainty, all Cartesian, is confronted with the trouble of a political practice whose springs escape from the categories of …
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Under the apparent clarity of the texts, the question of real power in Senegal is now expressed as a metaphysical enigma. The Constitution, in its solemnity, invests the President of the Republic in the fullness of the executive; it is the verb that instigates, the will that commands, the gaze that watches. But this legal certainty, all Cartesian, is confronted with the trouble of a political practice whose springs escape from the categories of …