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"While, I like the idea that there is no judicial review in your constitution, France has something far worse---Brussels review."

There isn't really Brussels review.

In the past, practically all policies of the EU were approved of - if not initiated by - France, so the issue didn't come up of a serious tension between Paris and Brussels.
That seems to be about to change.
And if it does there is no question that French sovereignty will remain intact.
We saw this in the British beef issue.
The government simply did not accept that British beef was safe from mad cow disease, in spite of rulings to the contrary. Regardless of what anybody said, that British beef was not going to get into the country. And it did not.

Of course, given corruption, there were cattle smuggled across from England, etc., and there is mad cow in France now as well. But that was not "Brussels review" at work.

I can hardly pretend that France is perfect!
It is far, far from it, with so many problems one does not know where to begin.
It is when I focus on the particular things that are causing such incredible political strains in America, and always have, that I see the problem as the structure of the American government, with the Supreme Court of the US holding the ultimate power.

By my view, the Supreme Court literally caused the US Civil War, by ending political compromise with the Dred Scott decision.
And then, when the Civil War resolved the issue of slavery and the US Constitution was amended to give blacks the rights of citizens and to vote, it was the Supreme Court that reversed all of that and took it all away, in Plessy v. Ferguson.

When some rational state regulation of labor started to happen, it was the Supreme Court that completely ended that with its Lochner decision...only to reverse itself and go so far as to prohibit farmers from growing food on their own land for their own use in the 1930s.

Americans give great credit to the US Supreme Court for desgregation, but it seems to me that all the Brown decision was was the reversal of the Supreme Court's own Plessy ruling the ignored the US Constitution and allowed segregation in the first instance.

The abortion decision Roe v. Wade was abominable. Surely such an issue should be determined by the people.

It just seems to me that there is a maldistribution of power in the US system, and that the lack of any effective check on the US Supreme Court has rendered much of the most important US law completely undemocratic. It is almost as though the US Congress or states decide all of the small, unimportant things, but that anything really important in America is taken away from the democracy and decided only by the Supreme Court.