Word: threatened
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bold parliamentary thrust. The Fourth Republic's constitution provides automatic dissolution of the Assembly and new elections if two governments fall on votes of confidence within a period of 18 months. Thus if Bidault's cabinet went down, the succeeding regime would be able to threaten the deputies with dissolution every time they failed to come to heel in a confidence vote...