The history of the constitution is very old, which means organization and establishment. The imperial edicts and decrees of ancient Rome are called constitutions, which are different from the legal documents adopted by ordinary citizens' meetings to some extent.

In feudal Europe, the monarch promulgated the constitution and established the basic principles of the state system in daily legislation, which included the meaning of the organic law. Britain established a representative system in the Middle Ages, and established the principle that the king could not levy taxes or enact other legislation without the consent of Parliament. France, on the other hand, is a country with extremely developed monarchy on the European continent, and the French feudal system is deeply rooted.

/kloc-at the end of 0/8, the feudal autocracy in France has become increasingly decadent, and various contradictions have become more and more acute. Among them, the most prominent contradiction is the contradiction between the development of capitalist commodity economy and feudal autocracy. Before the Great Revolution, France was in transition from a closed natural economy to a capitalist commodity economy. At that time, the workshop handicraft industry in France had developed greatly, among which mining, metallurgy, luxury goods industry and textile industry were the most developed. However, France is still a country dominated by small-scale production, and financial capitalism has developed particularly rapidly. With the development of capitalist economy, the wealth of the bourgeoisie has surpassed that of the nobility and become the richest stratum in society. Influenced by the Enlightenment, some nobles who engaged in overseas colonial activities and managed plantations in the colonies were also increasingly liberalized, resulting in the idea of "the supremacy of civil rights", which believed that the power of the people was higher than the private interests of the monarch. On this basis, they put forward the slogans of "freedom", "equality" and "fraternity", which was the historical background at that time.

During the Great Revolution, the National Assembly had hoped to formulate a new French Constitution, but it was shelved at that time because the contradictions and disputes between revolutionary factions could not be reconciled. After the Fog Moon Revolution, Napoleon gained the actual sovereignty of France, and the revolutionary thought of the supremacy of civil rights is still deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. In order to balance the people and the rulers, Napoleon urgently needed to rely on a form recognized by the people to restrain the increasingly extreme democratic thought. Therefore, in this unique historical background, the Civil Code was born.