Head of state
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A head of state is the public persona of a sovereign state. The specific naming of the head of state depends on the country's form of government and separation of powers; the head of state may be a ceremonial figurehead or concurrently the head of government and more.
Grassalkovich Palace in Bratislava is the seat of the President of Slovakia.
King Harald V of Norway
Charles de Gaulle, President and head of state of the French Fifth Republic (1959–1969)
George Washington, the first president of the United States, set the precedent for an executive head of state in republican systems of government
Politics of France
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The politics of France take place with the framework of a semi-presidential system determined by the French Constitution of the French Fifth Republic. The nation declares itself to be an "indivisible, secular, democratic, and social Republic". The constitution provides for a separation of powers and proclaims France's "attachment to the Rights of Man and the principles of National Sovereignty as defined by the Declaration of 1789".
The National Assembly sits in the Palais Bourbon, by the Seine.
The Senate's amphitheater
The Conseil d'État sits in the Palais Royal.
The basic principles that the French Republic must respect are found in the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.