If France is taken as an example, two approaches could be followed in order to amend that country’s constitution. The first method is to obtain a majority of votes in both chambers of the French Parliament and a majority of the people’s votes in a referendum. The second method is to attain a two-thirds of vote in a joint plenary session of both chambers of Parliament with no need for a referendum required. France’s Constitution also sets forth that the decision of whether to place a constitutional amendment in a referendum rests with the President even though it might have been endorsed through the second method discussed above. Regarding the hierarchy of norms within the Constitution, the French Constitution states that the “republican form” of government cannot be amended in any way. Therefore, it is implied that an amendment of the French Constitution is not directly up to the people and that it might be amended within the parliamentary framework only.