Course Content

The course program will consider, among other things, the following topics: the political power and the State, the birth of the State, the elements of the State, the forms of State and their historical evolution, the principle of political representation, the principle of separation of powers, the majority rules, the forms of government (constitutional government; parliamentary government, presidential government and semi-presidential government), the government conducting; the electoral systems, the Italian Constitutional organization (the Government, the Parliament, the President of the Republic, Regions and local government and the public administration); the sources of law, the criteria that resolve contradictions among sources, the Constitution, the Constitution and constitutional power; the Italian Constitution, the formal law of Parliament, the delegated legislation and the decree-law; the secondary sources and the referendum as a source of law, the EU sources; the sources of local authorities; the system of human rights protection in the Italian Constitution, dealing with individual liberty, the judicial protection and the role of the judicial power, the constitutional Court and the Italian constitutional system of justice.

Mode of Delivery

The course will consist in 50 hours of frontal lectures. It could also be provided for the holding of seminars – for a maximum of 6 hours – cared for by the staff of the professors in charge