Italian constitutionalists and the Resistenza

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Published

2026-01-13

Issue

Vol. 36 (2018): Constitutional History and Historiography in Italy: key-elements and new trends. For the 70 years of the Italian Constitution

Section

Itinerari

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.63277/gsc.v36i.4563

Authors

  • Giuseppe Filippetta Istituto piemontese per la storia della Resistenza e della società contemporanea “Giorgio Agosti”

Keywords:

Italian Resistance, sovereignty, representation, political parties

Abstract

Most of the Italian constitutionalists were not interested in the Resistance movement or they told it only as the Resistance of the anti-fascist parties, forgetting the fundamental and spontaneous role of Italian individuals and partisan formations. This happened because the thought of the Italian constitutionalists is characterized by an anti-individualism and anti-pluralism, inherited from the liberal-authoritarian legal thought and from the fascist one, that don’t allow them to think the single individual as a sovereign subject and direct protagonist of the juridical and political life.

Author Biography

Giuseppe Filippetta, Istituto piemontese per la storia della Resistenza e della società contemporanea “Giorgio Agosti”

Istituto piemontese per la storia della Resistenza e della società contemporanea “Giorgio Agosti”.