Learning objectives

Acquisition of an adequate skill as well as historical-methodological, historical-factual and historical- conceptual competences, for a comparative and interdisciplinary understanding (history, law, political science) of the main innovations introduced by the modern Constitutions of the Nineteenth and Twentieth centuries.

Prerequisites and basic notions

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Program

Contents
In the course, entitled The constitutional dualism between Parliament and Government in the constitutional monarchy of the Kingdom of Italy (1848-1922), will be dealt with the period between 1848 and 1922 from the point of view of the political-constitutional history. The period of time taken into account goes from the establishment in Piedmont 1848 of the modern representative system , which was extended 1861 to the entire newly established Kingdom of Italy, until to the rise to power of fascism. The attention will be focused on the two main institutions of the political system of the Italian constitutional monarchy, namely Parliament and (monarchical) Government, as well as on their relationships in the political history of the Italian constitutional monarchy during the liberal age.
1. Starting from the pre-constitutional period the transition of the italian peninsula from the Napoleonic period to the Restoration era up to 1848 will be illustrated .
2. Then it will be analyzed the transition 1848 of the Sardinian Kingdom to a constitutional state through the adoption of the Albertine Statute.
3. It will be analyzed the two-chamber political system erected in the Kingdom of Sardinia on the basis of the Albertino Statute; the new representative system was based on a Chamber of elected Representatives and on a Senate appointed by the King.
4. By describing the new role assumed by the King in the new (monarchical-)constitutional system, the new institutions of the Executive, ie the Council of Ministers (Cabinet) and the President of the Council (Premier) , which both aimed to limite the power of the monarch. will be also highlighted.
5. Then will be followed the events of the new representative and executive institutions within the Kingdom of Italy, as well as the changes and transformations to which they went.
The course will be developped through frontal lessons. It will be also used official sources such as laws, ordinances, parliamentary acts. The student may submit to the attention of the teacher his critical reflections on the subject of the lessons.
It is strongly recommended frequency.

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Didactic methods

The course will be developped through frontal lessons. It will be also used official sources such as laws, ordinances, parliamentary acts. The student may submit to the attention of the teacher his critical reflections on the subject of the lessons.
It is strongly recommended frequency.

Learning assessment procedures

Exam mode:
Verification of learning will take place for the attending students through an oral exam upon the text of R. Martucci indicated in the n.1 of the bibliography.
For not attending students, verification of learning will consist of an oral exam on Martucci's text and also on two more texts, ie the two suggested by the numbers 2) and 3) of bibliography.
Reference texts:
1) - Martucci, Roberto, Storia costituzionale italiana. Dallo Statuto albertino alla Repubblica (1848-2001), Roma, Carocci, 2002, sino a p. 197;
2) Luigi Musella, Il trasformismo, Bologna , Il Mulino, 2003, sino a p. 97;
3) Daniela Novarese, Le istituzioni politiche della Restaurazione, in Marco Meriggi – Leonida Tedoldi (a cura di), Storia delle istituzioni politiche. Dall’antico regime all’era globale, Roma, Carocci, 2014, pp. 103-127.

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