Constitution of Italy

The Constitution of Italy (Italian: Costituzione della Repubblica Italiana) is the supreme law of Italy. It was approved by the Constituent Assembly (Assemblea Costituente) on 22 December, 1947. The Constituent Assembly was elected with the universal suffrage on 6 June, 1946; at the same time, italian people voted to switch the form of the state from Monarchy to Republic; This is the Birth of the Italian Republic .

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Italian - Law - Italy - Constituent Assembly - 22 December - 1947 - 6 June - 1946 - Monarchy - Republic - Birth of the Italian Republic

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We can group the forces that enliven the debate inside the assembly into three main trends: the christian democratic solidaristic one, the socialist-communist and the liberal (promoter of civil liberties, heir of the liberal tendencies of the nineteenth century). All of those tendencies agreed about refusing any authoritaristic choice, because they were deeply anti-fascist. Each party belonging to those trends worried about his future in the first election that there would have been after the promulgation of the Constitution and tried to insert in the constitutional act some regulations reflecting the opinions of the tendence they belonged to: the result was that, for example, some parts of the text refer much more to the christian-democratic believes (like parts concerning marriage and family), some others, for further example, remind communist and socialist topics (like parts concerning workers rights).

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Christian democratic - Socialist - Communist - Liberal - Fascist

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The italian Constitution came into force on 1 January 1948, one century after the come in to force of Statuto Albertino, the past italian constitution.

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1 January - 1948 - Statuto Albertino

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It's really important to underline that this act mainly contains general regulations; it's not possible to apply them directly. Only a few regulations, concerning particolar problems, are considered to be self-executing. So it's necessary to implement those general rules in the particular situations, and to do that, the Parliament needs to take a legislative act. This type of parlamentar activity is usually called accomplishment of constitution. This process took decades, and probably, nowadays, due to political problems, it is not still finished.

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