Constitutional revision in Italy: A marginal instrument for constitutional change

• Autores: Tania Groppi
• Localización: Engineering Constitutional Change: A comparative perspective on Europe, Canada and the USA / Xenophon Contiades (ed. lit.), 2012, ISBN 978-0-415-52976-1, págs. 203-227
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • A special procedure for constitutional revision was introduced for the fi rst time in Italy in the 1948 Constitution, enacted by the Constituent Assembly after the fall of the Fascist regime and the end of the Second World War. The Constitution establishes a “constitutional democracy”: that is, a form of government in which sovereignty belongs to the people, who are governed by a rigid constitution, entrenched within an aggravated amending procedure, requiring higher majorities than those requested for the enactment of ordinary legislation